Yet I desperately wanted to share the news, as if grief were a heavy burden to be spread out among those who must bear it.
When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.
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 are the sum of all we have done added to the sum of all that has been done to us.
Uma pedrinha pode fazer sair uma roda do seu caminho, disse-me ele, mas avisou-me que a experiência raramente era agradável para a pedrinha.
Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.
There is a peculiar strength that comes to one who is facing the final battle. That battle is not limited to war, nor the strength to warriors. I've seen this strength in old women with the coughing s...
Then I'd be dead, I pointed out. Among other things. Fool, there is no sense in trying to playthat game with the past. Here is where we are today, and we can only make our moves from here.
The man who worries about what will next be happening to him loses this moment in dread of the next, and poisons the next with pre-judgement.
That’s how it’s done, Trell. You break your heart against this stony world. You fling yourself at it, on the side of good, and you do not ask the cost. That’s how you do it.
That no man can truly imagine being happy and that's why happiness isn't for sale here.
Somewhere inside me, a madman raged in his cell, but I chose not to know of that.
Silence keeps a secret. I understand.’ I
She knew, with vast certainty, that she would never desire to be kissed by a man who had first asked her permission.
Reminding myself that these servants might be better born than myself, I treated them all with great courtesy and later wondered if that might not be the secret of the harmonious household, that all s...
Only my pain is more silent than my anger.
One part braggart to one part coward. He would fear everyone he did not control. And the next day he would fear those he controlled even more.
One must plan for the future and anticipate the future without fearing the future.
Não tem de ser assim tão ruim - disse Breu calmamente. - A maior parte das nossas prisões é criada por nós mesmos. Um homem também faz a própria liberdade.
Not being able to think of a reply is not the same thing as accepting another's words.