"The future never just happened. It was created."

--

Mae Jemison

“If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.”
“Nos are just as valuable as yeses in the game of life. In fact, they're essential.”
“Life is easier when you can write off others as monsters, demon, as horrible threats that must be hated and feared the thing is you can't do that without becoming them, just a little.”
“Arise, arise, Riders of ThÃ©oden! Fell deeds awake, fire and slaughter! spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered, a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor!”
“To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.”

Source : Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1980). “The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857”, p.62, Harvard University Press
“Read much, but not many works.”
“This means that we have here an entirely separate kind of chemistry for which the current tool we use is the electrometer, not the balance, and which we might well call the chemistry of the imponderable.”
“The devil tryna rip out my soul. Lost my soul.”

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