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A dragon without its rider is a tragedy. A rider without their dragon is dead. —Article One, Section One The Dragon Rider’s Codex
“Life isn’t fair, and the minute we get that through our heads and stop trying to control things we can’t, we can shed the fear and guilt that kills our motivation.”
― The Meaning in the Making: The Why and How Behind Our Human Need to Create
― The Meaning in the Making: The Why and How Behind Our Human Need to Create
“Yet these memories are impossible to forget, regardless of whether we actually lived through them. I believe they stay in our bodies. As sickness, as addiction, as poor posture or a tendency toward apology, as a deepened capacity for sadness or anger. As determination to survive, a relentless tempered optimism. I believe they are inherited, passed on to us like brown eyes or the shape of a nose.”
― Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir
― Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir
“You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.”
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