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“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”
Crime And Punishment • Fyodor Dostoevski“In general, one must have value oneself in order freely and willingly to acknowledge value in another. This is the basis for the requirement that modesty accompany all merits, as well as the disproportionately loud praise for this virtue which alone, among all its sisters, is always added to the praise of anyone distinguished in some way by the person who dares to praise him, so as to conciliate the worthless and silence their wrath. For what is modesty if not false humility which someone with merits and advantages in a world teeming with perfidious envy uses to beg the pardon of those who have none? Someone who does not lay claim to merit because he in fact has none is being honest, not modest.”
The World As Will and Representation • Arthur Schopenhauer“She imagined seeing herself as just another brilliant freak of nature. Just another sentient animal, trying their best.”
Midnight Library • Matt Haig“Perhaps it takes courage to raise children.”
East Of Eden • John Steinbeck““Not to extinguish our free will, I hold it to be true that Fortune is the arbiter of one-half of our actions, but that she still leaves us to direct the other half.””
The Prince • Niccolo Machiavelli