Hendrik

“The word “inspiration” usually means “something that mentally stimulates you.” But “inspiration” also means to breathe in. The meanings poetically combine when you think of yourself breathing in thoughts, filling your body with ideas. But don’t forget to breathe out.”
― Derek Sivers, Hell Yeah or No: What's Worth Doing

“A thousand-thousand decisions by a thousand-thousand men and women make up the links of causation, not only yours. I say this not to excuse you or to lighten the load of responsibility on your shoulders, but to affirm that to live a life true to one's nature, and to accept the consequences, seems to me all that can be demanded of us.”
― Ken Liu, Speaking Bones

“Why must we mortals be compelled to aid the cause of death when death is guaranteed to be the final victor?”
― Ken Liu, Speaking Bones

“They say writing is a kind of death for the truth. Once something is written down, the logograms usurp the place of the ideas they represent and are mere shadows of. While a living voice can respond and adapt, the dead logograms stand mute, unable to answer an accusation or offer an apologia. Writing breeds hypocrisy because the clever may justify any barbarism by paying the writings of the sages ritualistic obeisance.”
― Ken Liu, The Veiled Throne