#ow

A house without books is like a room without windows. ↗

but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short. ↗

Let go of certainty. The opposite isn't uncertainty. It's openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow. ↗

— Tony Schwartz

#certainty #curiosity #growing #learning #letting-go

A wager?" I repeated. "Yes," he said, and gave me a slow smile, bright with challenge. ... "Stake?" I asked cautiously. He was still smiling, an odd sort of smile, hard to define. "A kiss." My first reaction was outrage, but then I remembered that I was on my way to Court, and that had to be the kind of thing they did at Court. And if I win I don't have to collect. I hesitated only a moment longer, lured by the thought of open sky, and speed, and winning. "Done," I said. ↗

— Sherwood Smith

#meliara #shevraeth #vidanric #wager #challenge

I have never learned to hate. Don't let my first lesson come from you. ↗

— Susan Carroll

#historical-fiction #meaningful #miri-cheney #powerful #susan-carroll

Two things you should know about me; The first is that I am deeply suspicious of people in general. It is my nature to expect the worst of them. And the second is that I am unexpectedly good with computers. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#dauntless #four #knowing-a-person #suspicious #tobias

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet. ↗

— Rumi

#each #fall #feet #finally #first

The future starts today, not tomorrow. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#starts #today #tomorrow

The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#song

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#cowardice #conscience

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