It is good practice to never fault someone for their birth name, being that it is always of far greater importance how men speak of you, than the name by which you are addressed.

To travel beyond our world is to change this present one forever.

And, to be true, an enemy's lair is an enemy's lair, no matter how comfortable or fancy it might appear.

The moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for joy, for peace.

Our past doesn’t define us, rather, it’s the courses we take after that tells us who we really are.

In history, the bleeding from arbitrary beatings, forced breedings, and choked-heatbreathing could almost be withstood by soul-feeding songs sung, or listlessly hummed just to go on.

cozy+smell of pancakes-alarm clock=weekend

Small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos can shift the whole system to a higher order.

I still love how Phil Spector turned teenage experiences into wonderful symphonies, but I find it a little more difficult to put myself in that place.

Leaders evoke emotional connections in followers only to the extent that the followers are emotionally needy.

I have to walk dogs." "Oh," Gansey replied, sounding deflated. "Well, okay." "But it'll only take an hour." "Oh," he repeated, about fourteen shades brighter. "Shall I pick you up, then?

Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.

The more we bestow the richer we become.