Patrick S.

“Each morning you must choose to get out of bed or not. All the medication and cognitive therapy and latest research and self-care in the world can’t replace your choice. This decision can be aided by these resources but never replaced by them. Which means that you have to have an answer to a fundamental question: Why get out of bed? Or, more bluntly, why live?”
― Alan Noble, On Getting Out of Bed: The Burden and Gift of Living

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“The point of history is to teach you to be like the men of Issachar “who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do” (1 Chron. 12:32). And the reason history is so important is that we are actually all characters in a story.”
― Rebekah Merkle, Classical Me, Classical Thee: Squander Not Thine Education

“Hopeless causes are the only ones worth fighting for. The fight for the taxpayer is the most hopeless of them all.”
― Larry Niven, Lucifer's Hammer