This brings us to a central insight: we can under-contribute by overcontributing.
“The questions you framed are unanswerable, and to be terrified by that is a sign not of weakness but of strength. A weak person wouldn’t have opened his mind to such terror.”
― Children of the Star
― Children of the Star
“When there is no love, not only the life of the people becomes sterile but the life of cities.”
― My Brilliant Friend
― My Brilliant Friend
“The straw that breaks the camel's back always looks light enough, until it lands.”
― Meddling Kids
― Meddling Kids
“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
― The Fellowship of the Ring
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