This is my fear, of a life wasted, of a cause misbegotten, of a belief that is, in the end, an empty and unattainable ideal, the foolish designs of an innocent child who believed there could be more.
“We achieve perfection first by acknowledging our failures. We increase understanding first by recognizing our ignorance.”
― Light Bringer
― Light Bringer
“For as this dark moment shows me the futility, so too it demands of me the faith—the faith that there is something beyond this mortal coil, that there is a place of greater understanding and universal community than this temporary existence. Else it is all a sad joke.”
― The Ghost King
― The Ghost King
“And that is the point of community: common need and common good, the strength of numbers, the tenderness of a helping hand, the ability to work as one to attain greater heights for all, the widening of horizons beyond one’s own perspective and one’s own family, the enrichment of life itself.”
― The Companions
― The Companions
“Precision, long-range shooting is basically weaponized math.”
― Monster Hunter Guardian
― Monster Hunter Guardian
“We are in constant struggle, the self and the community, where in our hearts we need to decide where one line ends and another begins. For some, this is a matter of religion, the unquestioned edicts of a professed god or gods, but for most, I would hope, it is a realization of the basic truth that the community, the society, is a needed component in the preservation of the self, both materially and spiritually.”
― The Companions
― The Companions
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