Nathaniel

“Most men go through life unchallenged, except at the final moment.”
― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune

“There is always more after the ending. Always the next morning, and the next. Always changes, losses and gains. Always one step after the other. Until the one true ending that none of us can escape. But even that ending is only a small one, larges as it looms for us. There is still the next morning for everyone else. For the vast majority of the rest of the universe that ending might as well not ever have happened. Every ending is an arbitrary one. Everything ending is from another angle, not really an ending.”
― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Mercy

“Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Be as you wish to seem, an ancient had said. It was good advice. Because acting brave and being so are very much the same thing.”
― S.M. Stirling, The Given Sacrifice