“Sutton sensed resurrection and he fought against it, for death was so comfortable. Like a soft, warm bed. And resurrection was a strident, insistent, maddening alarm clock that thrilled across the predawn chill of a dreadful, frowzy room. Dreadful with its life and its bare reality and its sharp, sickening reminder that one must get up and walk into reality again.
But this is not the first time. No, indeed, said Sutton. This is not the first time that I died and came to life again. For I did it once before and that time I was dead for a long, long time.”
Source: Time and Again
“How often the very means of liberation we choose become the chains that bind us.”
“Darko Cvijetić: Schindlerov lift / Schindler elevator
Croatian (Original)
Daytonski mir tu noć potpisan.
Mi nismo ništa znali.
Nije nam javljeno.
Ujutro oni izašli iz rovova, slave, dovikuju, pucaju u zrak.
Mi se zgledamo isprepadani.
Mirno i staloženo nanišanim.
Skinem najveselijeg.
E, taj.
Svaku mi noć dođe preko plota u vrt.
I pjeva li pjeva, Bože blagi, kao da sam ga promašio.
English Translation
The Dayton Peace was signed that night.
We knew nothing.
We weren't told.
In the morning, they climbed out of the trenches, celebrating, shouting, firing into the air.
We looked at each other, terrified.
Calmly and steadily, I took aim.
I took down the happiest one.
That one.
Every night he comes over the fence into my garden.
And he sings and sings, dear God, as if I had missed him.”
Source: Schindlerov lift
“The path of the heart is that of love, peace and gratitude.”
“When strangers share bread, borders blur.”
“A grudge is a ghost you've invited to live in your head; it’s time to evict the spirit and reclaim the space.”
Source: The Frictionless Life: 25 Essays on Character, Virtue, and the Art of Being Unshakable: Stop Chasing the Hustle. Start Building a Soul.
“If you can be the calmest person in a room that is burning down, you've already found the way out.”
Source: The Frictionless Life: 25 Essays on Character, Virtue, and the Art of Being Unshakable: Stop Chasing the Hustle. Start Building a Soul.
“If you can wish for your enemy to find what they're looking for, you've already found what you were looking for: freedom.”
Source: The Frictionless Life: 25 Essays on Character, Virtue, and the Art of Being Unshakable: Stop Chasing the Hustle. Start Building a Soul.
“Rest more, fear less, love freely.”
Source: a three body solution: A Daringly Subversive & Juicy Tale of Love, Evolution, & Humanity's Last Hope
“She craved a tall glass of the fresh-squeezed lemonade from the pitcher she’d left chilling in the fridge. Two glasses served with a generous slice of pound cake with orange glaze icing sounded twice as nice.”
Source: Fur the Win