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  • #1
    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    “I think I have to believe that life will work out the way it needs to. If everything that happens in the world is just a result of chance and there’s no rhyme or reason to any of it, that’s just too chaotic for me to handle. I’d have to go around questioning every decision I’ve ever made, every decision I will ever make. If our fate is determined with every step we take . . . it’s too exhausting. I’d prefer to believe that things happen as they are meant to happen.”
    Taylor Jenkins Reid, Maybe in Another Life

  • #2
    Michael Pollan
    “Yes, forgetting can be a curse, especially as we age. But forgetting is also one of the more important things healthy brains do, almost as important as remembering. Think how quickly the sheer volume and multiplicity of sensory information we receive every waking minute would overwhelm our consciousness if we couldn’t quickly forget a great deal more of it than we remember.”
    Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

  • #3
    Mark Twain
    “It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.”
    Mark Twain

  • #4
    “Save your skin from the corrosive acids from the mouths of toxic people. Someone who just helped you to speak evil about another person can later help another person to speak evil about you.”
    Israelmore Ayivor

  • #5
    William Blake
    “I was angry with my friend:
    I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
    I was angry with my foe;
    I told it not, my wrath did grow.

    And I water'd it in fears,
    Night & morning with my tears;
    And I sunnéd it with smiles
    And with soft deceitful wiles.

    And it grew both day and night,
    Till it bore an apple bright;
    And my foe beheld it shine,
    And he knew that it was mine,

    And into my garden stole,
    When the night had veil'd the pole:
    In the morning glad I see
    My foe outstretch'd beneath the tree.”
    William Blake, Songs of Experience

  • #6
    Orson Scott Card
    “An enemy, Ender Wiggin," whispered the old man. "I am your enemy, the first one you've ever had who was smarter than you. There is no teacher but the enemy. No one but the enemy will tell you what the enemy is going to do. No one but the enemy will ever teach you how to destroy and conquer. Only the enemy shows you where you are weak. Only the enemy tells you where he is strong. And the rules of the game are what you can do to him and what you can stop him from doing to you. I am your enemy from now on. From now on I am your teacher.”
    Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

  • #7
    Michael Bassey Johnson
    “Protect your good image from the eyes of negative viewers, who may look at your good appearance with an ugly fiendish eye, and ruin your positive qualities with their chemical infested tongues.”
    Michael Bassey Johnson

  • #8
    George R.R. Martin
    “The unseen enemy is always the most fearsome.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

  • #9
    Criss Jami
    “What man ever openly apologizes for slander? It is not so much a feeling of slander as it is that of a massive lie, a misdeed not only to the slandered but also to those manipulated in the process. He has made them all, every one, his enemies, thereupon he is so overwhelmed with guilt that he will deny it until his grave.”
    Criss Jami, Killosophy

  • #10
    Sun Tzu
    “Be where your enemy is not.”
    Sun Tzu

  • #11
    Toba Beta
    “I respect those who don't secretly hate me.”
    Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

  • #12
    Elias Canetti
    “It is always the enemy who started it, even if he was not the first to speak out, he was certainly planning it; and if he was not actually planning it, he was thinking of it; and, if he was not thinking of it, he would have thought of it.”
    Elias Canetti, Crowds and Power

  • #13
    Jennifer Valoppi
    “We don’t choose our enemies, Robert thought. They choose us – and there is not a damn thing we can do about it.”
    Jennifer Valoppi, Certain Cure: Where Science Meets Religion



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