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“Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.”
― Tennessee Williams, Conversations With Tennessee Williams

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer and I have my mind...and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone if it is to keep its edge. That's why I read so much Jon Snow.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“Dudes who look dangerous should just be dangerous. Period. The end. They should not be dangerous and beautiful all at the same time. It leaves the universe out of balance, and it makes me do stupid things like stare.”
― Cora Carmack, All Broke Down

“Open your mind before your mouth”
― Aristophanes

“Patience is a conquering virtue.”
― Geoffrey Chaucer

“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.”
― Harvey Fierstein

“The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.”
― Daniel Defoe

“Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and when he dies only the five senses that we know perish with him, and the other ninety-five remain alive.”
― Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard

“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
― Anton Chekhov

“I think... if it is true that
there are as many minds as there
are heads, then there are as many
kinds of love as there are hearts.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Oh, I think not,â€� Varys said, swirling the wine in his cup. “Power is a curious thing, my lord. Perchance you have considered the riddle I posed you that day in the inn?â€�
“It has crossed my mind a time or two,� Tyrion admitted. “The king, the priest, the rich man—who lives and who dies? Who will the swordsman obey? It’s a riddle without an answer, or rather, too many answers. All depends on the man with the sword.�
“And yet he is no one,� Varys said. “He has neither crown nor gold nor favor of the gods, only a piece of pointed steel.�
“That piece of steel is the power of life and death.�
“Just so� yet if it is the swordsmen who rule us in truth, why do we pretend our kings hold the power? Why should a strong man with a sword ever obey a child king like Joffrey, or a wine-sodden oaf like his father?�
“Because these child kings and drunken oafs can call other strong men, with other swords.�
“Then these other swordsmen have the true power. Or do they?� Varys smiled. “Some say knowledge is power. Some tell us that all power comes from the gods. Others say it derives from law. Yet that day on the steps of Baelor’s Sept, our godly High Septon and the lawful Queen Regent and your ever-so-knowledgeable servant were as powerless as any cobbler or cooper in the crowd. Who truly killed Eddard Stark, do you think? Joffrey, who gave the command? Ser Ilyn Payne, who swung the sword? Or� another?�
Tyrion cocked his head sideways. “Did you mean to answer your damned riddle, or only to make my head ache worse?�
Varys smiled. “Here, then. Power resides where men believe it resides. No more and no less.�
“So power is a mummer’s trick?�
“A shadow on the wall,� Varys murmured, “yet shadows can kill. And ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.�
Tyrion smiled. “Lord Varys, I am growing strangely fond of you. I may kill you yet, but I think I’d feel sad about it.�
“I will take that as high praise.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

“the identity of an individual is essentially a function of her choices, rather than the discovery of an immutable attribute”
― Amartya Sen, The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity

“Memory is more indelible than ink.”
― Anita Loos

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning

“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning

“Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning

“Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him. By his love he is enabled to see the essential traits and features in the beloved person; and even more, he sees that which is potential in him, which is not yet actualized but yet ought to be actualized. Furthermore, by his love, the loving person enables the beloved person to actualize these potentialities. By making him aware of what he can be and of what he should become, he makes these potentialities come true.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning

“What is to give light must endure burning.”
― Victor Frankl

“So live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning

“I don't consider myself a moral man. I do not philosophize about life or bother with laws and principles that govern most people. I do not pretend to know the difference between right and wrong. But I do live by a certain kind of code. And somethimes, I think, you have how to shoot first.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unite Me

“Watch yourself, Nikolai,â€� Mal said softly. “Princes bleed just like other men.â€�
Nikolai plucked an invisible piece of dust from his sleeve. “Yes,â€� he said. “They just do it in better clothes.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.”
― Albert Einstein

“The cycle of violence needs extreme love to break it.”
― Sarah Macdonald, Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure