Wisdom that isn’t distilled in our own crucible can’t help us.
– from The Palace of Illusions book by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
We don’t always get what we …
We don’t always get what we want, but sometimes what is happening is for the best. The sooner you can accept it as a reality, the sooner you can adapt to it.
– from The Almanack of Naval Ravikant book by Eric Jorgenson
All change is hard at first …
All change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.
– from The 5 AM Club book by Robin Sharma
I’m a simple man without a …
I’m a simple man without a lot of complicated twists and turns. Look down my throat and you can see out my ass. Naturally, I don’t know how to make my bosses like me.
– from The Three-Body Problem book by Cixin Liu
War is like an avalanche. Once …
War is like an avalanche. Once begun, it cannot cease until it has wreaked all the destruction it is capable of.
– from The Palace of Illusions book by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
You can cut someone out of …
You can cut someone out of your life, but that doesn’t mean they’ll cut you out of theirs.
– from Mad Honey book by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan
I think that people who say …
I think that people who say life is all about the choices we make and the roads we go down are full of shit. […] When the fickle finger of fate points at you, all roads lead to the same place, that’s what I think. I may change my mind when I’m older, but I really don’t think so.
– from Later book by Stephen King
Anything sufficiently weird must be fishy …
Anything sufficiently weird must be fishy.
– from The Three-Body Problem book by Cixin Liu
Experimental physics – hell, all of …
Experimental physics – hell, all of science – is about solving problems. However, you can’t solve them all at once. There’s always a larger, overarching question – the big target. But if you obsess on the sheer enormity of it, you lose focus. The key is to start small. Focus on solving problems you can answer. Build some dry ground to stand on. And after you’ve put in the work, and if you’re lucky, the mystery of the overarching question becomes knowable. Like stepping slowly back from a photomontage to witness the ultimate image revealing itself.
– from Dark Matter book by Blake Crouch
When you are happy, everywhere is …
When you are happy, everywhere is a happy place. And when you are sad, everywhere is a sad place.
– from The Wedding People book by Alison Espach