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“What should we be doing in the meantime?” “All of the things you will look back on fondly later when you have not been able to do them for a long time.”
― Neal Stephenson, Seveneves

“For we pay a price for everything we getor take in this world; and although ambitions are well worthhaving, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues ofwork and self-denial, anxiety and discouragement.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson”
― Ken Forkish, Flour Water Salt Yeast: The Fundamentals of Artisan Bread and Pizza

“She lit a candle and set it down at the altar amid a sea of tiny flames. Each of them the same, as if all the dreams and desires of people were indistinguishable from one another. The prayer of a female poet, perhaps the only one in Eivar, no different from a mother’s prayer for her sickening infant or a farmer’s prayer for a good harvest.”
― Ilana C. Myer, Last Song Before Night

“I will ride horses like wind I will warm my hands at fires I will savor darkened wines I will not think of the road’s end.”
― Ilana C. Myer, Last Song Before Night

“Her heart was a broken-winged bird that staggered in circles.”
― Ilana C. Myer, Fire Dance

“One’s shadow is private.”
― Ilana C. Myer, Fire Dance

“you tell me to quiet down cause
my opinions make me less beautiful
but i was not made with a fire in my belly
so i could be put out”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey

“Millions are impressed by the victories of power and take it for the sign of strength. To be sure, power over people is an expression of superior strength in a purely material sense. If I have the power over another person to kill him, I am "stronger" than he is. But in a psychological sense, the lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness. It is the expression of inability of the individual self to stand alone and live. It is the desperate attempt to gain secondary strength where genuine strength is lacking.”
― Erich Fromm