Amy once told Steve that the first time she enters any building she looks for every possible escape route. Steve used to do it himself, but, as he’s got older, the first thing he looks for is where the loo might be.
“Personal importance, or taking things personally, is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about “me.”
― The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
― The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
“Hope is a fickle, dangerous thing. It steals your focus and aims it toward the possibilities instead of keeping it where it belongs—on the probabilities.”
― Fourth Wing
― Fourth Wing
“Life is a weird thing. We spend all our time trying to manage different aspects of it, yet we are still largely shaped by things that happen beyond our control.”
― Us Against You
― Us Against You
“The only monster you need to worry about in this life is the one that stares at you from the mirror each morning. You tame him, make friends with him, and the rest of life is nothing you can’t handle.”
― Chasing Fireflies
― Chasing Fireflies
“He wakes up in the mornings with the feeling that someone has stolen a better life from him, an unbearable phantom pain between what he should have been and what he actually became. Bitterness can be corrosive; it can rewrite your memories as if it were scrubbing a crime scene clean, until in the end you only remember what suits you of its causes.”
― Beartown
― Beartown
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