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“Each time you protect your energy, you send a powerful message: “I value myself”
― Trent Shelton, Protect Your Peace: Nine Unapologetic Principles for Thriving in a Chaotic World

“Chasing is tiring. It’s hard—way too hard. Some of us are working too hard. Working too hard to make people like us. Working too hard to impress others. Working too hard to be something we’re not. Some of us are even working too hard to impact people. That may sound crazy, but if you are”
― Trent Shelton, Protect Your Peace: Nine Unapologetic Principles for Thriving in a Chaotic World

“All that can justify killing is 'an existential threat to one’s own way of life. . . . To demand seriously of human beings that they kill others and be prepared to die themselves so that trade and industry may flourish for the survivors or that the purchasing power of grandchildren may grow is sinister and crazy.”
― Carl Schmitt

“But, like all medieval dynasties, their power was embodied in the physical person of the king and passed on through marriage and reproduction. The personal was therefore political.”
― Justine Firnhaber-Baker, House of Lilies: The Dynasty That Made Medieval France