"I have never been much of a researcher"

-- Meg Wolitzer

“Could it be ... that the hero is one who is willing to set out, take the first step, shoulder something? Perhaps the hero is one who puts his foot upon a path not knowing what he may expect from life but in some way feeling in his bones that life expects something of him.”

Source : "The World of the Hero". Book by P. L. Travers, 1976.
“Nosology (from the Greek nosos, meaning disease, and logos, referring to study) is not a sport for the timid, and certainly not for those so scrupulous about rules and order that they demand consistency in all things.”
“Doing a good impression of a backup goalie the last few weeks.”
“I'm slamming n***as like Shaquille, s**t is real When it's time to eat a meal, I rob and steal”
“One should go to sleep as homesick passengers do, saying, "Perhaps in the morning we shall see the shore.”
“The key to human happiness lies within our own state of mind, and so too do the primary obstacles to that happiness.”
“It is accordance with our determination to refrain from aggression and build up a sentiment and practice among nations more favorable to peacethat we have incurred the consent of fourteen important nations to the negotiation of a treaty condemning recourse to war, renouncing it as an instrument of national policy.”
“People may say 'What can I do? I'm only one person.' But we've proven that when we come together demonstrate, and speak our piece, there is no way the power structure can avoid being attentive.”

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