Grace Tan

“Frightened people become angry people—as history teaches us again and again.”
― Anthony Bourdain, Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook

“Comparing ourselves to others is futile, so stop doing it! Instead, focus on your own life. If you’d like to improve, don’t strive to make yourself the same as someone else – strive to make yourself better than you were yesterday.”
― AJ Winters, The Motivation Switch: 77 Ways to Get Motivated, Avoid Procrastination, and Achieve Success

“When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“To others, the universe seems decent because decent people have gelded eyes. That is why they fear lewdness. They are never frightened by the crowing of a rooster or when strolling under a starry heaven. In general, people savour the “pleasures of the flesh” only on condition that they be insipid.”
― Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye