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Aose’s father used to say the sun should be treated as a treasured guest and welcome into a house.

Sometimes the greatest leadership is knowing the way home.

There are always two of everything, one we see and one we don’t see.

All my thoughts about morals and ethics boil to one single thing: not if it concerns your family. You can have a thousand principles, but not if it concerns your family. That’s what you protect first and foremost, above morals, even above the law. Family first.

All children are victims of their parents’ childhood, because all adults try to give their kids what they themselves enjoyed or lacked. That’s why someone who hated their childhood often has greater empathy than someone who loved theirs. Because someone who had a hard time dreamed of other realities, but someone who had it easy can hardly imagine that things could be any different.

69&70 are just the best best best chapters of the entire series!

This is how a community’s corruption is measured. It isn’t cheating if you don’t get caught, and it isn’t a scandal if it never gets revealed. Until then, there are just secrets. All forests are full of them.

“Most adults, by contrast, find it hard to be playful—no doubt because they have to take care of all the responsibilities that come with an adult’s life. Creative adults, however, have not forgotten how to play.”

“And that’s the problem with the unconscious. It is unconscious. You can’t order it about or hit it with a stick. You have to coax it out in all sorts of strange and crafty ways. And be clever about interpreting what it does tell you.”

Because you can’t get good at a sport of you’re not sensitive enough for it to mean everything to you, if you don’t take every setback personally, if every loss doesn’t feel like strong.

One day you will be one of the people who lived long ago.

A common misconception about dangerous people is that they lack emotions. That they aren’t sentimental. That’s almost never true, often the most sentimental and sensitive people are the most dangerous, because they’re not only capable of abuse, but can also justify it. Sensitive people never feel that they’re doing the wrong thing because their feelings always convince them that they’re on the right side.

When we are little we grieve for the person we have lost, but when we are older we grieve even more for ourselves.

One of the man’s former coaches once said “You get success by having extremely high integrity but absolutely zero prestige. Because integrity is about who you are, whereas prestige is only about what other people think of you”

It’s impossible to measure love, but that doesn’t stop us coming up with new ways to try. One of the simplest is space: How much space am I prepared to give the person that you are so that you can become the person you want to become?

Never trust people who don’t have something in their lives that they love beyond all reason.

In ancient Sumerian, ki-ang was “to love” - strangely, the word meant “to measure the earth”. Love was not a feeling or an emotion as much as an anchor that rooted you to a place.

Where you have set your mind begin the journey
Let your heart have no fear, keep your eyes on me.

In some ways it is as though hardly anytime has passed, and a thousand of years were a mere puff of wind. The past, no matter how remote or unknown, is not bygone. It is alive. The past is a clay tablet, worn and chipped, but hardened by the heat of centuries.

Home is where your absence is felt, the echo of your voice kept alive, no matter how long you have been away or how far you may strayed, a place that still beats with the pulse of your heart.

I want to strengthen your resolve. Our ancestors were resilient and passed this resilience down through generations.
But no matter how tall your grandfather, you have to do your own growing.

What happens after catastrophes? Those who survive nurse their broken hearts and start all over again, as one always does, as one always must.

The sons of abusive fathers need to grow fast.

Water-the universal silent-retained evidence, or memory of the solute particles that had dissolved in it book matter how many times it was diluted or purified. Even if years passed, or centuries, and not a single original molecule remained, each droplet of water maintained a unique structure, distinguishable from the next marked forever by what it once contained. Water in other words, remembered.

Numbers are important and grandma’s favourite is seven. In order to prices an emotion, be it good or bad, you must allow seven days to pass. Never make a major decision unless you have spent seven days contemplating it.

It sounds like quite the gift to me. Perhaps you need time to discover how to use it. The sun is weak when it first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day goes on.

As he reads he can taste the words, the tip of his tongue tingling with flavours- buttery, oaky, zingy, spicy, herbaceous. Reading is a feast he can never have enough of, and he tucks into each page with relish.

More and more he comes to realise that people fall into three camps: those who hardly, if ever, see beauty, even when it strikes them between the eyes; those who recognise it only when it is made apparent to them; and those rare souls who find beauty everywhere they turn, even in the most unexpected places.

The real secret was that when they looked at each other, they each thought they had a better deal.