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Sand and Foam • Kahlil Gibran“The task of breaking a bad habit is like uprooting a powerful oak within us.”
Atomic Habits • James Clear“Everything we think and feel about a situation ultimately comes back to how valuable we perceive it to be.”
The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A F*Ck • Mark Manson““I am for her an indispensable, integral part of her boudoir.””
The Duel • Anton Chekhov“The exchange of one fear or pleasure or pain for another fear or pleasure or pain, which are measured like coins, the greater with the less, is not the exchange of virtue. O, my dear Simmias, is there not one true coin, for which all things ought to exchange?—and that is wisdom; and only in exchange for this, and in company with this, is anything truly bought or sold, whether courage or temperance or justice. ...in the true exchange, there is a purging away of all these things, and temperance, and justice, and courage, and wisdom herself are a purgation of them.”
The Trials Of Socrates • Plato