Michael

“Giving advice to a child is like flinging sand at an obsidian wall. Nothing sticks. The brutal truth is that we each suffer our own lessons—they can’t be danced round. They can’t be slipped past. You cannot gift a child with your scars—they arrive like webs, constricting, suffocating, and that child will struggle and strain until they break. No matter how noble your intent, the only scars that teach them anything are the ones they earn themselves.”
― Steven Erikson, Dust of Dreams

“Work keeps at bay three great evils: boredom, vice, and need.”
― Voltaire, Candide

“What is discipline? Discipline means creating an order within you. As you are, you are a chaos.”
― Osho, Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega Volume 10

“Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is.
And you must bend to its power or live a lie.”
― Miyamoto Musashi