Riane > Riane's Quotes

“This book is dedicated to trees. Yup. Trees. Thanks for the oxygen besties. And sorry for cutting you down and making you into books. But at least you’re pretty in your carved up shell of death while we stare at symbols printed onto your skeleton and hallucinate about hot book boyfriends and fantasy worlds, holding the dried out pieces of your soul in our palms. We owe you one. The next time we exhale, we’ll send some CO2 to your descendants.”
― Caroline Peckham, Ruthless Fae

“Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents.”
― Epictetus, The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness

“Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.”
― Epictetus

“He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.”
― Epictetus