Justine

“Know Thyself. It’s good advice. Know yourself. You are worth knowing. Examine your life. The unexamined life is not worth living. Be aware that other people have equal significance. Give them the space to make their own choices, and let their choices count as you want them to let your choices count. Remember that excellence has no stopping point and keep on pursuing it. Make art that can last and that says something nobody else can say. Live the best life you can, and become the best self you can. You cannot know which of your actions is the lever that will move worlds. Not even Necessity knows all ends. Know yourself.”
― Jo Walton, The Just City

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.”
― Edith Wharton

“Saccharine daydreams
Of salad days and bursting seams.
Living life so fully,
Death has nothing to take.
What does it take to be a martyr in this place?”
― Christopher Hantman, What Does It Take To Be A Martyr In This Place? A Collection of Poems on Grief and Loss.

“I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me