No matter how canny you think you are, something can come along, bam, and put you on your prat.
On that night you told me you were the author of my current existence.
Hut
The wise man strives for awareness. What will happen will happen, and worry will not serve, but anticipation might provide survival.
Sergeant Harper.
In an infinite universe, all things are not only possible but, no matter how improbable, certain to exist somewhere at some time.
I know he hasn't a mean or petty bone in him, but one can err on the side of caution as well as rashness.
But to speed it along, he needs to know that pain will come. The knack is to not engage the pain, not hold on to it like a treasured thing, but to simply let it pass through and wait until it’s gone....
The most ancient lesson of the Tsurani: duty is the weight of all things, as heavy as a burden can become, while death is nothing, lighter than air.’ The
Learn the nature of self, accept all aspects of self, then the mastery can begin. Denial of self is denial of all.
Among man’s strange undertakings, war stood clearly forth as the strangest.
You know what it is to laugh at death, Arutha. You’ll never be the same man again.
With bullies it’s always the same: whether or not you can best them doesn’t matter. What is important is whether or not you’ll stand up to them.
The world is much larger than I once dreamed, or perhaps my place in it is smaller than I once realized.
It is the single blackest shame in the memory of our race that one segment of our people utterly destroyed another. ‘But
It is the nature of things that many people are more interested in affixing blame than fixing the problem.
All right, me darlings. You heard the Captain. Look around and tell ol'Biggo what you thieving rascals grabbed when you ran for your lives!
A small bad intention is often far more easily believed than a big one, Magnificence
Dirk, stunning the man. Borric shoved the third bruiser hard into a fat merchant
There are cities that have no ... I don't know what to call it, an identity perhaps. A sense of being someplace different. Lots of those in the Empire. Very old cities with lots of history, but one da...