The hardest lesson in life is learning to accept that there are some things we can’t change.
Suffering was inescapable, but to care for another and to be cared for in turn – that was the closest any person might come to heaven.
Have you ever considered the fact that everything we are originates from the remnants of stars that once exploded?” Jorrus said, “Vita ex pulvis.” “We are made from the dust of dead stars.
What, you think all jarheads are stupid?” Sparrow chuckled before going serious again. “All good soldiers are philosophers, same as a priest or a professor. You have to be when you deal with matters of life and death.
We are the universe watching itself, watching and learning.
Blaming yourself is perfectly normal, but it doesn’t do you any good. Until you stop, unless you can stop, you’ll never be able to fully recover.
Gregorovich continued: “Could I advise myself in the past, prior to my transition, I would tell myself to make the most of what I had while I had it. Too often we don’t appreciatethe value of something until it has slipped our grasp.
Everyone messes up. How you deal with it is what determines who you are.
The hardest lesson in life is learning to accept that there are some things we can’t change.” Falconi paused, his eyes hard and glittering. “Blaming yourself is perfectly normal, but it doesn’t do you any good. Until you stop, unless you can stop, you’ll never be able to fully recover.
Names are powerful things; you should be careful whom you share yours with. You never know when a person might turn your name against you.
She was unsurprised to see that the war had resulted in an unprecedented drawing together of humanity. Even the Zarians had put aside their differences with the League in order to join forces against their shared enemies. What was the point of arguing amongst yourselves if the monsters in the dark were attacking?
A month in quarantine would wear on anyone.
Logic only took you so far. Sometimes the cure to the dark was to find another flame burning bright.
A man rarely knows the day and hour when he will die. I could be killed at any moment, and there’s not a blasted thing I can do about it. What will happen will happen, and I won’t waste the time I have aboveground worrying. Misfortune always comes to those who wait. The trick is to find happiness in the brief gaps between disasters.
The universe is spinning apart: a pinwheel driven to the point of failure. Darkness and emptiness, and what matters still?
How much reality did the contents of one’s mind actually possess?
Life was the most dangerous thing there was.
Sometimes it’s not possible to stay home, even if you want to.
It was a frantic, ugly dance, but a dance all the same, and despite its ugliness, filled with moments of grace and daring.
Beware of losing your way, for you are one of the few who are truly free to choose their own fate. That freedom is a gift, but it is also a responsibility more binding than chains.