Mark Puckett

“Hearts can be well hidden, and you betray them with your tongue.”
― Neil Gaiman, Instructions

“At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: “I have to go to work — as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I’m going to do what I was born for — the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?”

So you were born to feel “nice”? Instead of doing things and experiencing them? Don’t you see the plants, the birds, the ants and spiders and bees going about their individual tasks, putting the world in order, as best they can? And you’re not willing to do your job as a human being? Why aren’t you running to do what your nature demands?

You don’t love yourself enough. Or you’d love your nature too, and what it demands of you.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“And I fell into darkness and foul dreams, and woke and found that waking was worse.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“Society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”
― Anonymous Greek Proverb