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“Good is not a thing you are. It's a thing you do.”
― Ms. Marvel (2014-2015) #5
― Ms. Marvel (2014-2015) #5
“Every disadvantage has its advantage.”
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“In metric, one milliliter of water occupies one cubic centimeter, weighs one gram, and requires one calorie of energy to heat up by one degree centigrade—which is 1 percent of the difference between its freezing point and its boiling point. An amount of hydrogen weighing the same amount has exactly one mole of atoms in it. Whereas in the American system, the answer to ‘How much energy does it take to boil a room-temperature gallon of water?â€� is ‘Go fuck yourself,â€� because you can’t directly relate any of those quantities.”
― Wild Thing
― Wild Thing
“The Zensunni approach to birth," he said, urging her even faster, "is to wait without purpose in the state of highest tension. Do not compete with what is happening. To compete is to prepare for failure. Do not be trapped by the need to achieve anything. This way, you achieve everything.”
― Dune Messiah
― Dune Messiah
“At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: “I have to go to work â€� as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I’m going to do what I was born for â€� the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?â€�
So you were born to feel “nice�? Instead of doing things and experiencing them? Don’t you see the plants, the birds, the ants and spiders and bees going about their individual tasks, putting the world in order, as best they can? And you’re not willing to do your job as a human being? Why aren’t you running to do what your nature demands?
You don’t love yourself enough. Or you’d love your nature too, and what it demands of you.”
― Meditations
So you were born to feel “nice�? Instead of doing things and experiencing them? Don’t you see the plants, the birds, the ants and spiders and bees going about their individual tasks, putting the world in order, as best they can? And you’re not willing to do your job as a human being? Why aren’t you running to do what your nature demands?
You don’t love yourself enough. Or you’d love your nature too, and what it demands of you.”
― Meditations
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