“Inception is true.”
Source: Reality Is Just A Possible Fantasy
“They enter the dreams, they create scenes in your dream to trick the systems. The systems think your dream was reality. They use actors to claim.”
Source: You Are Always Innocent
“Shoot for the moon, because even if you miss you miss, you'll land in the stars.”
“A period of protracted, repeated, profound, emotional turmoil, beginning sometime in the second or third year of the practice of law, and continuing off and on, mostly on, many times for the rest of the legal career, characterized by a rather significant, continuous, and oftentimes all-consuming, desire to explore alternative possibilities; to explore a change, any change at all, and to effect the change. These periods are typically coupled with a constant search for a new dream to pursue, potentially followed by additional periods of intense regret as dreams are not fulfilled.”
Source: And... Just Like That: Essays on a life before, during and after the law
“as I begIn my journey away from the law life, you should know, or already have figured out, that I think the law looms and it consumes, fumes, presumes, entombs; it lurks in the classroom, the conference room, the boardroom, and the courtroom; sometimes it assumes; it is often the legendary professional jealous mistress, hiding within a law firm with a nom de plume that sounds austere and thoughtful and august and distinguished... and sometimes, just sometimes, despite itself, it manages to bloom. It is larger than life. It makes few concessions for dreamers, and perhaps dreamers have no right to expect concessions. It took me a very, very long time to learn this: while there may be better ways to go through life, at the same time, there are many, many worse ways to go through life.”
Source: And... Just Like That: Essays on a life before, during and after the law
“Dreams come true not because you are rich in money, but because you are rich in persistence.”
Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
“To get more out of your time at work, you should set goals. This helps you to stay focused better and gives you something more to work towards.”
“Why do we always believe that the path of our deepest desire would be so far from the path that God would have us walk? How is the path of desire so different from the path to the Giver of that desire?”
Source: Say Yes: Discover the Surprising Life Beyond the Death of a Dream
“Most people would assume Gideon was a pessimist because hello, look at the obvious (everything fucking sucked) but actually he wasn’t, because he enjoyed being alive. He loved being awake. He missed being awake.”
Source: The Atlas Paradox
“Yes, here, this was his domain now, because they were in a dream and Gideon was a dreamer. He was an optimist, an idiot prince. He saw the possibility of doom and said not today, fucker!, flipping off the whims of fate while diving backward into hell.”
Source: The Atlas Paradox