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“You pull the thing into your shoulder, look down the thing, then flip the other thing, and finally squeeze the clicky thingy and boom. Got all that?”
― The First Peacemaker
― The First Peacemaker
“is it fair to myself or others to assume these negative identities when what I'm really identifying is simply how I'm different? Of course not. And is it really an act of personal growth or self-improvement to set a goal to change these traits in favor of ones that conform to cultural expectations? Of course not—it's an act of personal violence and self-negation.”
― What Works: A Comprehensive Framework to Change the Way We Approach Goal Setting
― What Works: A Comprehensive Framework to Change the Way We Approach Goal Setting
“Everything happened. Not for a reason”
― A Crown for Cold Silver
― A Crown for Cold Silver
“It is always hard to believe that the courageous step is so close to us, that it is closer than we ever could imagine, that in fact, we already know what it is, and that the step is simpler, more radical than we had thought: which is why we so often prefer the story to be more elaborate, our identities clouded by fear, the horizon safely in the distance, the essay longer than it needs to be and the answer safely in the realm of impossibility.”
― Consolations - Revised edition: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words
― Consolations - Revised edition: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words
“Sometimes I think the urge to believe in our own worldview is our most powerful intellectual imperative, the mind’s equivalent of feeding, fighting, and fornicating. People will eagerly twist facts into wholly unrecognizable shapes to fit them into existing suppositions. They’ll ignore the obvious, select the irrelevant, and spin it all into a tapestry of self-deception, solely to justify an idea, no matter how impoverished or self-destructive. And”
― Extremis
― Extremis
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