Seth Ring > Quotes

“[Retire: You have been discharged with high honors by the Royal Lepierian Army and granted a deed to a small farm in the Robain Mountains, at the frontier village of Fairford. Speak to the village leader to claim your land.]”
― Seth Ring, Domestication

“The world is a complicated place. It is the natural result of putting complicated people together and asking them to get along. One of the marks of maturity is being able to recognize those complications without allowing them to shape the way you live your life. Other people’s actions are their own. We understand them and anticipate them, but we don't let them keep us from being good.”
― Seth Ring, Nova Terra: Guardian

“After having spent a decade scrabbling around in the mud, desperate to preserve his life, there was something truly fulfilling about seeing things grow and mature thanks to the hard work of his hands.”
― Seth Ring, Germination

“John was often curt in his speech and guarded in his expression, though he had been getting better, and the few times she had seen him in this almost easy-going, relaxed mood, he had been about to engage in a fight. The realization caused her heart and mind to tremble as she tried to imagine what sort of life he must have lived to be more comfortable in the tension of imminent battle than in everyday life.”
― Seth Ring, Germination

“Faith has to do with genuine belief in a particular being or ideal, and the belief that said being or ideal can and will impact you for the better. If the current gods don’t generate faith in those who follow them, why not set up a new faith, a new deity, one who can allow the people of this world to cultivate their faith? Not only will that provide them a passive protection from the corruption, but the deity who gains the faith will be able to fight more directly against the devil’s corruption.”
― Seth Ring, Conservation

“The general who makes calculations...” “Is the one who wins.”
― Seth Ring, Crow's Fortune

“No matter how many times he looked at the floating blue window hovering just outside of reach, John could not quite wrap his mind around the fact that he had been summoned to a parallel world like some web novel protagonist. It had been ten brutal years, and no matter how he cut it, this world was no fun-loving adventure. The fact that he had survived long enough to activate his current quest was nothing short of a miracle, and no matter how barren the mountains ahead of him, he was positive it was better than what he was leaving behind.”
― Seth Ring, Domestication

“No, I’m just rehashing the same thoughts over and over again without getting anywhere.” “That’s what happens when you’re responsible for the world,” Ellie said, laughing. “Can I give it back?” “Nope, sorry. You’re stuck with it until someone catches up to you. Come on, I just made some bread, you can help me try it out with the new cheese.”
― Seth Ring, Fermentation

“Where in the user agreement?” Thorn asked, his eyes narrowing. “Three hundredth page of the seventy-third subsection of the twenty-second section on potential physical effects of playing. Listen, it’s not my fault if you humans don’t read. Why on earth you would just sign things and hope for the best is beyond me.”
― Seth Ring, Reforged

“My body bends to my will, not I to it.”
― Seth Ring, Nova Terra: Greymane

“Poverty. But not just a lack of resources. No, it’s the dangerous kind of poverty. The ‘I don’t have any food and I’ll kill for a mouthful of bread’ sort of poverty. But the problem is that it’s not just poor people. Everyone has been infected with the mindset. You know, it’s more than that though. Sure, there’s not enough to go around, but people are resourceful and can survive on very little. The real problem is when everyone feels like they don’t have enough and that stabbing their neighbor to get his share is an acceptable option. Sure, sometimes people need a good stabbing, but never because they have something we don’t.”
― Seth Ring, Germination

“All of these questions are things you will have to discover for yourself. Without the journey to discover the answers, the questions would lose all value.”
― Seth Ring, Nova Terra: Liberator

“don’t know that I’ve ever met a dumb farmer before,” John replied, taking another step forward. “It’s surprisingly challenging work. Takes a lot of ingenuity.”
― Seth Ring, Cultivation

“Hold on,” Ben held up his hand, his narrowed gaze darting between his sister and John. “Let’s deal with the real problem first.” “There are no more cookies,”
― Seth Ring, Domestication

“I have a policy,” he said calmly, “to never stop someone who is digging their own grave.”
― Seth Ring, Dreamer's Throne 4: A Fantasy LitRPG Adventure

“The fact that I don’t care that my bull somehow learned to understand common is a clear sign I’ve lost all hope for this world.”
― Seth Ring, Domestication

“Let me know once we can accept a seventy percent casualty rate or higher and I’ll end the fight in no time,”
― Seth Ring, Nova Terra: Catalyst

“Often, a large evil that was known was better than a thousand small evils in the shadows.”
― Seth Ring, Domestication

“So why didn’t you just tell me all of this from the get-go? Why make this into a game?” It took a long time for the system to answer, but when it did, its voice was firm and sure. “Because some things cannot be spoken of without guaranteeing they happen. Because you did not possess the knowledge you needed to save the world. Because you may not have been the one the world needs.”
― Seth Ring, Preservation

“The farm was a microcosm of life in many ways, a small version of society and the beings who lived in it. Though on the surface it appeared as if very little ever changed, the reality was that there was a tremendous amount going on at all times. In many ways, the farm was like a giant machine, one prone to breaking down if all of its components weren’t kept in working order. The farm could run for a little while without incident, but inevitably something would deteriorate or break, causing the entire spinning system to grind to a halt unless it was fixed right away. When the farm was working, it produced tremendous results, but to keep it working required considerable labor.”
― Seth Ring, Preservation

“The difference between success and failure often lies in our willingness to suffer. Not suffering without reason, but suffering with purpose.”
― Seth Ring, Nova Terra: Earthshaper

“None of these negative thoughts are real. They are all ‘could have beens,’ or ‘might bes,’ but who knows if they will ever come to pass. This soil is real. These plants are real. This amazing farm, and the even more amazing people who live and work here, are real. Yet my thoughts are so deeply planted that when I just push them aside they always grow right back. I need to take them out by the roots.”
― Seth Ring, Fermentation

“I’m not afraid to say it was the greatest thing I’ve ever made, at least until the point I left this world. Who knows if I’ve done greater things since then. I probably have.”
― Seth Ring, Cultivation

“Chances are time passes slower in your world compared to this one. The higher the world, the faster time passes, the lower the world, the slower it passes. Though obviously, higher and lower are simply designators and have no bearing on actual location. Another way to think about it is that the denser the mana of a world, the higher on the chain it is, and consequently the faster that time moves.”
― Seth Ring, Transformation

“The biggest change, however, was in his eyes. No longer did they look at the world with the detached indifference of someone who was so separate from the world that nothing could affect him. No longer did they carry the sense that the wrong word would lead to violence and death. Instead of an otherworldly, alien coldness, they now expressed an unshakable calm, along with a hint of warmth that promised safety.”
― Seth Ring, Fermentation

“You know, you’ve been smiling a lot more than normal lately. I’m not going to lie, it’s a little bit creepy.”
― Seth Ring, Dreamer's Throne 4: A Fantasy LitRPG Adventure

“There’s a saying. The triumphant general makes many calculations in his tent beforehand.”
― Seth Ring, Chain of Feathers

“What a farce. Most powerful person in an entire fantasy world, and I’m reduced to bullying farm animals.”
― Seth Ring, Domestication

“As my grandmother said, the past is but an unemployed ghost—it can only haunt you if you hire it.”
― Seth Ring, Domestication

“Yeah, we ran crusades for about six months. One of the other leaders of Ragnarok was responsible for grinding rep so, apart from Jorge, who was one of the scouts for the other team leader, we did not spend a whole lot of time on it. But the map does not change at all, so having someone who knows it is a great idea.”
― Seth Ring, Nova Terra: Kingbreaker