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“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. It”
― Heide Goody, Pigeonwings

“Thorn stood without motion, for only when you are truly still can you be the centre. She stood without sound, for only silent can you listen. She stood without fear, for only the fearless can understand their peril. Hers”
― Mark Lawrence, Red Sister

“I have been too young to know, and I have been too old to care. It’s in that oh-so-narrow slice between that memories are made. So”
― Mark Lawrence, Red Sister

“When we get angry, we suffer. If you really understand that, you also will be able to understand that when the other person is angry, it means that she is suffering. When someone insults you or behaves violently towards you, you have to be intelligent enough to see that the person suffers from his own violence and anger. But we tend to forget. We think that we are the only one that suffers, and the other person is our oppressor. This is enough to make anger arise, and to strengthen our desire to punish. We want to punish the other person because we suffer. Then, we have anger in us; we have violence in us, just as they do. When we see that our suffering and anger are no different from their suffering and anger, we will behave more compassionately. So understanding the other is understanding yourself, and understanding yourself is understanding the other person. Everything must begin with you.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Anger

“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.”
― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

“the magic of turning marks on a page into images, sounds, feelings; a whole other world into which you can escape when the one around you isn’t to your liking.”
― R.A. Hakok, Among Wolves

“Comparison is poison. The poison is available at any time. It detracts from very real accomplishments and it hides all the steps and hardships required along the way to any achievement, even the hard work required from a prodigy. The trick is to look inward”
― Michael F. Stewart, Ray Vs the Meaning of Life

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
― Buckminster Fuller

“Amateurs obsess over strategy, Irjah had once told their class. Professionals obsess over logistics”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

“I don’t care what you meant to do. I really don’t.
I only care about what you actually do. That’s important. The rest of it is just a bunch of bull shit.
--- Grace.”
― Christian Kiefer, The Animals

“Because even though honesty is hard, you really have to murder people with it if you expect to be a person of any value at all.”
― David Arnold, Mosquitoland