We prefer to explore the universe by traveling inward, as opposed to outward.
However, just because something isn’t surprising doesn’t mean it’s easy to deal with.
I love books. I adore everything about them. I love the feel of the pages on my fingertips. They are light enough to carry, yet so heavy with worlds and ideas. I love the sound of the pages flicking against my fingers. Print against fingerprints. Books make people quiet, yet they are so loud.
My father didn’t believe in war. He said war was evil, but if it came he would revel in it like sand in a storm.
They’re capable of great things, but potential doesn’t equal success.
To know someone’s pain is to share in it. And to share in it is to relieve some of it.
They say that when faced with a fight you cannot win, you can never predict what you will do next. But I’d always known I’d fight until I was killed.
People are too focused on money. It’s supposed to be a tool, not the prize to be won.
I want you to write yourself into history because no matter what history books say, even you are a part of it.
They don’t teach them to understand others, they teach them to expect others to understand them,” he said in English. He humphed and said, “Americans.
I felt the pain and the glory of growth, was straining and shuddering with it.
Lambs think money and material things are the most important thing in the world. You can cheat, lie, steal, kill, be dumb as a rock, but if you can brag about money and having lots of things and your bragging is true, that bypasses everything. Money and material things make you king or queen of the Lamb world. You can do no wrong, you can do anything.
Home will never be the same once you know what you are. Your whole life will change.
Lesson one,” Anatov said. “And this is for all of you. Learn how to learn. Read between the lines. Know what to take and what to discard.
I was young but I hated like a middle-aged man at the end of his prime.
Change was constant. Change was my destiny. Growth.
There was always so much I didn’t know, but not knowing was part of it all.
Just because you are American does not make you American.
A tree with strong roots laughs at storms.
When elephants fight, the grass suffers.