Megan Thomason > Quotes

“If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.”
― Megan Thomason, Arbitrate

“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.”  —Anatole France”
― Megan Thomason, Clean Slate Complex

“What does he expect from a law student? I'm hard-wired to find loopholes.”
― Megan Thomason, Daynight

“In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.”  —Confucius”
― Megan Thomason, Clean Slate Complex

“They can go about collecting every material thing of worldly value, but they’re missing everything that truly counts. When you’ve got nothing else, family means everything to you.”
― Megan Thomason, Clean Slate Complex

“When there’s a history between people, it makes for some serious complications—even in something seemingly as simple as friendship. There is no real starting over. There’s only trying to minimize the importance of things in the past. And some events are just too life altering to trivialize.”
― Megan Thomason, Arbitrate

“The Second Chancers’ welfare is our primary concern, which is why we like to bring in people who know them and can report on their progress from an insider’s perspective.”
― Megan Thomason, Daynight

“They can go about collecting every material thing of worldly value, but they’re missing everything that truly counts. When you’ve got nothing else, family means everything to you. Far as I’m concerned, funny jokes, sharing the good and the bad, and supporting each other’s better than all the fancy cars, houses, and clothes in the world.”
― Megan Thomason, Clean Slate Complex

“I came to accept and embrace my past—both the good things and the bad. I wouldn’t be who I am, or where I am, if I hadn’t had my experiences and trials.”
― Megan Thomason, Arbitrate

“Two rights and three lefts later,”
― Megan Thomason, Daynight

“They rattled off the names of dozens of cities too fast to write down, but I did catch Industrial City, Military City, Farm City, Food City, and Fashion City. I wonder why the naming conventions are so provincial. Must be that the same not-so-enterprising guy who discovered Thera and decided not to cash in named everything with his simpleton vocabulary. As”
― Megan Thomason, Daynight

“at what point do the rationalizations strip you of your humanity?”
― Megan Thomason, Daynight

“Guys don’t have girls as friends. At least not hot girls like Kira.”
― Megan Thomason, Daynight

“Cleave or not,”
― Megan Thomason, Arbitrate

“Holy freaking crap. A suicide bomber just detonated a bomb in my brain,”
― Megan Thomason, Daynight

“Pain, suffering, and death are natural conditions of the human existence. One person’s pain is not and cannot be more important than another’s.”
― Megan Thomason, Generate

“There is nothing more dangerous than knowledge without wisdom.”
― Megan Thomason, Generate

“We all fall. Every one of us. We fall, and we fail, and we flail, and we flounder. We do right by someone and end up hurting someone else. We get beat up and we do our share of beating. We screw up more than we succeed. That’s life, babe. But those successes? They’re so bright and beautiful that they swallow the darkness—every blot, stain, and mar on our souls.”
― Megan Thomason, Arbitrate

“Maybe they have some new line of contacts that gives cute guys an alien, jeweled feel.”
― Megan Thomason, Daynight

“If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.” —Lao Tzu”
― Megan Thomason, Arbitrate