All wars are games. The greatest kind, with the pieces lost real lives, the prizes captured making for real wealth! This is the life for which men exist. To fight, to kill, to win.
– from The Way of Kings book by Brandon Sanderson
Category: Quotes
Success is never a coincidence. Luck …
Success is never a coincidence. Luck can give you money, but never success.
– from Beartown book by Fredrik Backman
I’m lost without you. I was …
I’m lost without you. I was content in my life before I met you, but I can’t go back to how things used to be. There’s only being with you and missing you. The only life I want is one with you in it.
– from Roommaid book by Sariah Wilson
It has always seemed to me …
It has always seemed to me odd that the world does not realize the immensity of a state of “I do not know.” Those who destroy that state with beliefs and assumptions completely miss an enormous possibility – the possibility of knowing. They forget that “I do not know” is the doorway – the only doorway – to seeking and knowing.
– from Inner Engineering book by Sadhguru
A mind kept wide open will …
A mind kept wide open will take something from every new experience.
– from Range book by David Epstein
Sometimes which choice you make is …
Sometimes which choice you make is not as important as making a choice and committing to it.
– from Greenlights book by Matthew McConaughey
Sometimes change is for the better …
Sometimes change is for the better, and sometimes change isn’t for the better. Modern toilets with a flush are definitely a change for the better. Self-service checkouts are definitely not. Sometimes things are a change for the better and the worse at the same time, like the internet. Or the electric keyboard. Or pre-chopped garlic. Or the theory of relativity. And a life is like that. There’s no need to fear change, or necessarily welcome it, not when you don’t have anything to lose. Change is just what life is. It is the only constant I know.
– from How to Stop Time book by Matt Haig
New York was populated by the …
New York was populated by the ambitious. It was often the only thing that everyone here had in common.
– from A Little Life book by Hanya Yanagihara
I’m a simple man without a …
I’m a simple man without a lot of complicated twists and turns. Look down my throat and you can see out my ass. Naturally, I don’t know how to make my bosses like me.
– from The Three-Body Problem book by Cixin Liu
When you’re high on inspiration, you …
When you’re high on inspiration, you can get two weeks of work done in twenty-four hours. Inspiration is a time machine in that way. Inspiration is a magical thing, a productivity multiplier, a motivator. But it won’t wait for you. Inspiration is a now thing. If it grabs you, grab it right back and put it to work.
– from Rework book by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson