Men cannot grieve as dogs do. But we grieve for many years.
Maybe you have to keep your pain and loss to know that you can survive whatever life deals you. Perhaps without putting your pain in its place in your life, you became something of a coward.
Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.
Life is a balance. We tend to forget that as we go blithely from day to day. We eat and drink and sleep and assume that we will always rise up the next day, that meals and rest will always replenish u...
Jovem como eu era, perguntava-me que espécie de homem era este que, com uma perna enfaixada, conseguia impor respeito a um recinto cheio de homens durões, com apenas um olhar ou uma palavra.
If a minstrel must embroider the truth to help us recall it fully, then let her, and let no one say she has lied. Truth is often much larger than facts.
I'll be glad to get out on the water again, and gladder still to see Divvytown. I knew it was my home port that first time I saw it.''The pirate town? Sa save us all. Does someone wait for you, dearie...
I lied!' I spat my whisper at him. 'I knew you read my journal. I knew you read my dreams. I wrote there what I thought would hurt you most! I lied to hurt you. For letting him be dead while you lived...
I don't think they're coming. Why must I stand here in the wind and rain?''Because it pleases me', Kennit snapped at him.Wintrow thought to intervene. 'You can have my cloak, if you like'. he offered....
How strange to be loved simply for who I was.
For time is the great enslaver of us all.
Die in your dreams, wake up insane.
Could any amount of love ever be worth the pain of losing it?
Boys, I decided, simply have a given amount of rudeness they must express.
A wise old man taught me that diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power. Persuasion, not force, works best and lasts longest.
When you let go and follow your fate instead of trying to twist your life around and master it, a man finds that happiness follows him.
No sense in trying to play that game with the past. Here is where we are today, and we can only make our moves from here.
What you are born to be, you will be, whether it be priest or sailor. So step up and be it. Let them do nothing to you. Be the one who shapes yourself.
We did hard things for each other. Risked our lives. Gave up our lives and faced death, and then faced life again. You might be surprised to find that facing life can be much harder than facing death.
We are the sum of all we have done added to the sum of all that has been done to us.