Aaron Kent

“Beware of men with theories that explain everything. Trust those who approach the world with humility and cautious insight. The”
― Mark Bowden, Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam

“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep Sea, and music in its roar:
I love not Man the less, but Nature more,
From these our interviews, in which I steal
From all I may be, or have been before,
To mingle with the Universe, and feel
What I can ne’er express, yet cannot all conceal.”
― Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

“He was simply an early lover of humanity, and that he adopted the monastic life was simply because at that time it struck him, so to say, as the ideal escape for his soul struggling from the darkness of worldly wickedness to the light of love.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“For only through assiduous repetition is it possible to redistribute skewed tendencies.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World