Lois McMaster Bujold

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#sci-fi #vorkosigan #inspirational

Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#courage #courage-to-be-oneself #inspirational #inspirational-life #self-determination

When the time comes to leap in faith whether you have your eyes open or closed or scream all the way down or not makes no practical difference. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#faith

The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#curses #prayer #business

Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#enduring #strength #strength-through-adversity #willpower #courage

Aim high. You may still miss the target, but at least you won't shoot your foot off. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#humor #humor

You try to give away what you want yourself. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#inspirational

It's a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn't even know you were aiming for. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#serendipity #writing #writing-process #bizarre

When the time came to leap in faith, whether you had your eyes open or closed or screamed all the way down or not made no practical difference. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#taking-chances #faith

On the sixth day God saw He couldn't do it all, so He created ENGINEERS ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#humor