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  • #1
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “I'll see you where the roads meet.”
    Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

  • #2
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “There’s no good story that doesn’t touch the truth.”
    Patrick Rothfuss
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  • #3
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”
    Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

  • #4
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.”
    Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

  • #5
    Brennan Manning
    “Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.”
    Brennan Manning, Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

  • #6
    Jonathan Haidt
    “Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into ideological teams that fight each other as though the fate of the world depended on our side winning each battle. It blinds us to the fact that each team is composed of good people who have something important to say.”
    Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

  • #7
    Jonathan Haidt
    “Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason.”
    Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

  • #8
    Daniel Kahneman
    “Jonathan Haidt said in another context, “The emotional tail wags the rational dog.”
    Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

  • #9
    “We live in a world where “boredom” is a dirty word, and people often compete to see who’s busier, as if their sense of self-worth could be measured by how little time they have.”
    William Stixrud, The Self-Driven Child: The Science and Sense of Giving Your Kids More Control Over Their Lives

  • #10
    “Without a healthy sense of control, kids feel powerless and overwhelmed and will often become passive or resigned. When they are denied the ability to make meaningful choices, they are at high risk of becoming anxious, struggling to manage anger, becoming self-destructive, or self-medicating.”
    William Stixrud, The Self-Driven Child: The Science and Sense of Giving Your Kids More Control Over Their Lives

  • #11
    Viktor E. Frankl
    “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
    Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

  • #12
    Viktor E. Frankl
    “Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.”
    Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

  • #13
    Viktor E. Frankl
    “But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.”
    Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

  • #14
    Viktor E. Frankl
    “In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.”
    Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

  • #15
    Viktor E. Frankl
    “Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.”
    Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

  • #16
    Viktor E. Frankl
    “I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.”
    Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

  • #17
    Lois Lowry
    “The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”
    Lois Lowry, The Giver

  • #18
    Lois Lowry
    “Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none”
    Lois Lowry, Gathering Blue

  • #19
    Lois Lowry
    “He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself.”
    Lois Lowry, Messenger

  • #20
    Lois Lowry
    “Fear dims when you learn things.”
    Lois Lowry, Son

  • #21
    C.S. Lewis
    “You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair

  • #22
    C.S. Lewis
    “But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy

  • #23
    C.S. Lewis
    “if you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy

  • #24
    C.S. Lewis
    “It is very true. But even a traitor may mend. I have known one who did.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy

  • #25
    C.S. Lewis
    “But as long as you know you're nobody special, you'll be a very decent sort of Horse, on the whole, and taking one thing with another.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy

  • #26
    C.S. Lewis
    “One of the drawbacks about adventures is that when you come to the most beautiful places you are often too anxious and hurried to appreciate them.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy

  • #27
    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
    “The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.”
    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  • #28
    James K.A. Smith
    “Planting is making a promise to stay near”
    James K.A. Smith, How to Inhabit Time: Understanding the Past, Facing the Future, Living Faithfully Now

  • #29
    “Imagine if we had to understand God to be with Him; we would never reach a deep enough knowledge to make us feel like we could be close.”
    Strahan Coleman, Beholding: Deepening Our Experience in God

  • #30
    “The perennial error is to equate holiness with morality and good works. Whenever sanctification is equated with good works, spiritual mischief follows. Then people are directed to their own inner disposition and spiritual preparations in order to achieve the level of sanctity that God demands in his law.”
    Harold L. Senkbeil, The Care of Souls: Cultivating a Pastor's Heart



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