Greg

“You're going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don't do. You don't get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you're going to take. That's it.”
― Jordan B. Peterson

“He could never empty, or silence, his own mind to make room for an alien thought.”
― Lewis C. S. (Clive Staples), Surprised by Joy: The shape of my early life

“Ultimately the thing that helped me find some healing [was when] I learned that life was not about turning the page, or getting to the other side of something.. It’s about holding what is broken about the world and holding what is joyful about the world, and being able to take a step forward with both. That is living well in the moment. And that’s what I’ve tried to make a discipline of.”
― RA Dickey

“And there were always choices to make. Every day, every hour, offered the opportunity to make a decision, a decision which determined whether you would or would not submit to those powers which threatened to rob you of your very self, your inner freedom; which determined whether or not you would become the plaything of circumstance, renouncing freedom and dignity to become molded into the form of the typical inmate.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning