Gino Mempin

“The world likes to see things in black and white, in moral and immoral. But there is gray in between. And just because a person is capable of wickedness, doesen't mean they will act upon it.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“In practical terms, a limit-embracing attitude to time means organizing your days with the understanding that you definitely won't have time for everything you want to do, or that other people want you to do -- and so, at the very least, you can stop beating yourself up for failing. Since hard choices are unavoidable, what matters is learning to make them consciously, deciding what to focus on and what to neglect, rather than letting them get made by default... And it means standing firm in the face of FOMO, the "fear of missing out," because you come to realize that missing out on something -- indeed, on almost everything -- is basically guaranteed. Which isn't actually a problem anyway, it turns out, because "missing out" is what makes our choices meaningful in the first place.”
― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

“You and everyone you know are going to be dead soon. And in the short amount of time between here and there, you have a limited amount of fucks to give. Very few, in fact. And if you go around giving a fuck about everything and everyone without conscious thought or choice—well, then you’re going to get fucked.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“In movies and novels, the yakuza are always reaching for a sword or a gun, but that's bullshit. Professionals were different in those days. Their job, the job they depended on for a living, was to shake the dice and give their customers a good time, which meant it was actually quite rare for them to quarrel. There were bosses who didn't see eye to eye, of course, but if they'd started carving each other up just because they didn't get on well, the police would have clamped down on them, and their business would have folded. So in a way you could say we were more accomodating generally than ordinary people.”
― Junichi Saga, Confessions of a Yakuza: A Life in Japan's Underworld