It is important to maintain a sense of order in one’s house, in one’s life. It helps you determine your place in the world, where you belong. Taxonomical classifications help place each creature atop its right branch. It’s no good to forget yourself, nor your obligations.
– from Mexican Gothic book by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
No matter how convinced you are …
No matter how convinced you are that your life will turn out a certain way, all that certainty can be washed away with a simple change in tide.
– from It Ends With Us book by Colleen Hoover
A woman should be like water …
A woman should be like water, able to flow over and around anything.
– from The Three-Body Problem book by Cixin Liu
A philosophy that embraced personal liberty …
A philosophy that embraced personal liberty, private property, and sound money was the only political philosophy worth championing.
– from End the Fed book by Ron Paul
The three most important words in …
The three most important words in investing are, “I don’t know.” Not saying those three words has cost investors billions.
– from How Not to Invest book by Barry Ritholtz
Your past is a place to …
Your past is a place to be learned from, not a home to be lived in.
– from The 5 AM Club book by Robin Sharma
I think many people love their …
I think many people love their problems. Gives them all sorts of excuses for not growing up and getting on with life.
– from Still Life book by Louise Penny
History isn’t something you need to …
History isn’t something you need to bring to life. History already is alive. We are history. History isn’t politicians or kings and queens. History is everyone. It is everything.
– from How to Stop Time book by Matt Haig
If you don’t have anything nice …
If you don’t have anything nice to say about someone, it’s best to say nothing at all.
– from The Maid book by Nita Prose
Reading is the door to knowledge …
Reading is the door to knowledge. Knowledge raises the yield of paddy. Knowledge combats poverty. Knowledge saves lives.
– from The Covenant of Water book by Abraham Verghese