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“There are four steps to gaining ownership and intentionality over your personal identity and beliefs: Determining your objective function What is the purpose of my life? Determining your ideological tree How do I best fulfill that purpose? Determining your personal identity Who do I want to be? Determining your public identity How do I want others to think of me?”
― Malcolm Collins, The Pragmatist’s Guide to Life: A Guide to Creating Your Own Answers to Life’s Biggest Questions

“This choice you make, if it’s real, born out of the love your mother left for you and your family deserves, if it’s made by the part of you that can only be honest, even when facing death, yours will be a life worth the world and everything in it. If this is the Erelim you’ll become, my Cae, then your failures and sins, your misgiving and crimes, will never stop me from loving you.”
― Daniel Cuervonegro, Sins of the Maker

“Lots of things went into creating a monster, but nothing had prepared her for actually being caught by one.”
― William Kely McClung, Black Fire

“she seemed comforted by the fact that their ordeal might be coming to an end,”
― Steven Decker, Time Chain: A Time Travel Novel

“I do not need to know all things. I remind myself that it is sufficient that I know what I know and know that without believing that I will always know what I know or that what I know will always be true.”
― Maya Angelou

“I’m doing badly, I’m doing well; whichever you prefer.”
― Franz Kafka

“The very purpose of a knight is to fight on behalf of a lady.”
― Thomas Malory

“Let the generations know that women in uniform also guaranteed their freedom.”
― Ammar Habib, Mary Edwards Walker: America's Only Female Medal of Honor Recipient

“He set down the milk pails to rest and stared at the bright house. This was a man’s great joy, to come at nightfall after his day’s work to a lighted house. . . . and his beloved was waiting for him with food and warmth and comfort.”
― Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“ثمة فارقاً بين أن يكون لنا ضمير و أن نستعمله .و ربما بدا لنا أن بعض الناس يتصرفون دون أية روادع لكن لدى هؤلاء برأيي ضمير حي حتى ولو كان مخبأً .كما أن بعض الناس يبدون محرومين من العقل لكن الواقع أنهم لا يستخدمون عقلهم
ان العقل كالضمير يشبهان عضلة اذا لم نستعملها تضعف شيئا فشيئا”
― جوستاين غاردر, Sophie’s World