Todd Mock

“For many of us, we will come to the point where death will be the only healer for the pain which our lives will have come to contain.”
― Harold S. Kushner, When Bad Things Happen to Good People

“To stand up straight with your shoulders back is to accept the terrible responsibility of life, with eyes wide open. It means deciding to voluntarily transform the chaos of potential into the realities of habitable order. It means adopting the burden of self-conscious vulnerability, and accepting the end of the unconscious paradise of childhood, where finitude and mortality are only dimly comprehended. It means willingly undertaking the sacrifices necessary to generate a productive and meaningful reality (it means acting to please God, in the ancient language).”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“It is always useful to think badly about people one has exploited or plans to exploit.”
― James W. Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

“We all have souls of different ages”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned