“Another and necessary kind of courage, which he has come to understand by reading adventure novels, is to know yourself for what you really are, accept what that is, and correct those habits and attitudes that need to be corrected. You can’t be a hero if you run away from either the enemy or the truth of yourself.”
― The Forest of Lost Souls
― The Forest of Lost Souls
“You will see every adversity as an injustice, every challenge as a failure, every inconvenience as a personal slight, every disagreement as a betrayal.”
― The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
― The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
“apatheia”
― Empire of Silence
― Empire of Silence
“Reacher worked on the principle that you should eat when you can so that you won’t have to when you can’t.”
― The Secret
― The Secret
“Even an ultimate artificial general intelligence, possessing all the knowledge of humanity, won’t have a conscience or a soul. A person without a conscience is a sociopath. Sociopaths are incapable of love.”
― The Forest of Lost Souls
― The Forest of Lost Souls
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