"Love cannot exist in peace, it will always come accompanied by agonies, ecstasies, intense joys and profound sadnesses."

“War is a damnable, filthy thing and has destroyed civilization after civilization”

Source : "Midnight Tides". Book by Steven Erikson, 2004.

“If you buy my book at Walmart, I don't want you to read it. I want you to set it on fire. Because that's what you just did with your money. When you buy a book through an indie-store, you put some money into an independent store and owner in your community. You've put some money into someone's life and someone's livelihood, into keeping the lights on, into helping them be alive. That's a great thing.”

“Everyone who feels stuck in the Obama economy is right to focus on the here and now. And I hope you understand this too, if you're feeling left out or passed by: You have not failed, your leaders have failed you.”

Source : Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

“For if there is ever a moment when we are most vulnerable, it’s when we’re closest to the idea of the attained desire, and thus farthest from ourselves, which is when we’ll tread through any flame.”

“The Admiralty said it was a plane and not a boat, the Royal Air Force said it was a boat and not a plane, the Army were plain not interested.”

“I responded to the gravity of an invisible moon at my core, and I undertook journeys I had not expected to take.”

“The difference between magic and meditation methods is the difference between drugs and diet—medicines will do swiftly what diet can only effect slowly, and in critical cases there is no time to wait for the slow processes of dietetics, so it must be either medicines or nothing. Nevertheless, drugs are no substitute for right diet and wholesome regime, and although magic enables a speedy and potent result to be attained, is is only by means of right understanding and right ethics that the position which has been won can be held.”

Source : Dion Fortune (2016). “The training and work of an initiate”, p.45, Dion Fortune

“You go though a period of immense pain when reality meets the dream.”