#my

The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without: to follow one's own path, not that of the crowd. ↗

— Nicholas Tharcher

#metaphysics #philosophy #acting

Who’s she? Just another Ivashkov. There are tons of them. Probably because all the guys like Adrian and have all sorts of illegitimate children." "Adrian doesn’t have any children." "That we know of. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#rose #vampire-academy #children

If we don't learn to mythologize our lives, inevitably we will pathologize them. ↗

— Richard Rohr

#mythology

You can't fool me, comrade. You want to put on a cowboy hat and keep lawless bank robbers in line.'' "No time. I have enough trouble keeping you in line. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#trouble

All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won’t be the truth: it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story. ↗

— Diane Setterfield

#children #myth #story #truth #birth

You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#investigation #methods #mysteries #sherlock-holmes #trifles

The ship founders on a sandbank and then gets back afloat. Electric power stops; after a while, the machines start up again. During such recesses, the anarch measures his own strength and autonomy. ↗

— Ernst Jünger

#autonomy #anarchism

A basic theme for the anarch is how man, left to his own devices, can defy superior forces – whether state, society, or the elements – by making use of their rules without submitting to them. ‘It is strange,’ Sir William Parry wrote when describing the igloos on Winter Island, ‘it is strange to think that all these measure are taken against the cold – and in houses of ice. ↗

— Ernst Jünger

#autonomy #society #anarchism

I am. I'm here. I'm me. You are the mystery.  ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#mystery #richelle #richelle-goodrich #self-awareness #you

Yet, the quest for knowledge will overcome us and we must know. And, at last, we must see where the road ends, even if it be the cliff. ↗

— Nancy B. Brewer

#historical-fiction-mystery #historical-mystery #historical-romance #romance-novels #historical