Rob

“When every day becomes a dance of repetition, soon you’re switching on autopilot more than you’re not. You’re barely there, until one day the light switches on and you wonder how the hell you got to where you are.”
― Caroline Hardaker, Mothtown

“Isn’t it true that you start your life a sweet child believing in everything under your father’s roof? Then comes the day of the Laodiceans, when you know you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked, and with the visage of a gruesome grieving ghost you go shuddering through nightmare life.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“Why do we care more about people who seem like us? In Chapter 10, I wrote that evil does its work from a distance. Distance lets us rant at strangers on the internet. Distance helps soldiers bypass their aversion to violence. And distance has enabled the most horrifying crimes in history, from slavery to the Holocaust. But choose the path of compassion and you realise how little separates you from that stranger. Compassion takes you beyond yourself, until those near and dear are no more or less significant than the rest of the world. Why else did the Buddha abandon his family? Why else would Jesus have instructed his disciples to leave behind their fathers and mothers, their wives and children, their brothers and sisters?”
― Rutger Bregman, Humankind: A Hopeful History

“When people resist planning it’s usually because they think they’re going to create a cage for themselves that will inhibit their creativity, but it’s not a cage, it’s a scaffold—something that you build upon, something that gives you a blueprint and a structure that will allow your creativity to flow within it.”
― Miranda Rijks, The Rapid Novel Blueprint: How to write bestselling books fast