Hanzel

“The more you love laughter the more you must bear with boredom.
The more you love excitement the more you must bear with monotomy.
The more you love company the more you must bear with loneliness.
The more you love loyalty the more you must bear with distrust.
The more you love pleasure the more you must bear with pain.
The more you love silence the more you must bear with speech.
The more you love solitude the more you must bear with noise.
The more you love knowledge the more you must bear with curiosity.
The more you love truth the more you must bear with conscience.
The more you love vice the more you must bear with guilt.
The more you love virtue the more you must bear with temptation.
The more you love morality the more you must bear with shame.
The more you love freedom the more you must bear with responsibility.
The more you love power the more you must bear with restraint.
The more you love wisdom the more you must bear with learning.
The more you love wealth the more you must bear with risk.
The more you love fame the more you must bear with apathy.
The more you love achievement the more you must bear with fear.
The more you love success the more you must bear with challenges.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Expect the worst and you can’t be disappointed. Optimism is the luxury of the young, the foolish and the dullard.”
― Luke Scull, The Grim Company

“I grabbed the closest box of books and heaved it onto my bed. It contained all the books I had read in Iraq. Dog-eared, with broken spines, speckled with dirt, food, and even a little blood, most of the copies were marked up with notes in the margins. The better the book, the worse it looked--that's the way it should be. As I saw it, they were almost more like diaries than books.”
― Michael Anthony, Civilianized: A Young Veteran's Memoir

“The woman he couldn’t ethically fuck, he wanted to fuck six ways to Sunday without a single socially acceptable barrier between them.”
― Elizabeth Finn, Inappropriate