Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.
Robin Hobb
Life is not a race to restore a past situation. Nor does one have to hurry to meet the future. Seeing how things change is what makes life interesting.
life change
But change proves that you are still alive. Change often measures our tolerance for folk different from ourselves. Can we accept their languages, their customs, their garments, and their foods into our own lives? If we can, then we form bonds, bonds that make wars less likely. If we cannot, if we believe that we must do things as we have always done them, then we must either fight to remain as we are, or die
change difference wars
How different would our perception of reality be if, instead, we discarded the mudane events that cannot coexist with our dreams?
dreams
A while later, I lingered in the hinterlands of sleep. Sometimes I think there is more rest in that place between wakefulness and sleep than there is in true sleep. The mind walks in the twilight of both states, and finds the truths that are hidden alike by daylight and dreams. Things we are not ready to know abide in that place, awaiting that unguarded frame of mind.
sleep dreams
home family
Men of passion and vision are often seen as mad.
fantasy
One must plan for the future and anticipate the future without fearing the future.
life future
I think that old magic draws much of its strength from that acknowledgment: that we are a part of that world.
magic nature
There is a dead spot in the night, that coldest, blackest time when the world has forgotten evening and dawn is not yet a promise. A time when it is far too early to arise, but so late that going to bed makes small sense.
night dawn evening
Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?
pain anticipation
The past is no further away than the last breath you took.
past present
I think I made a better boy than I do a man, I admitted ruefully to the wolf. Why not wait until you've been at it a bit longer and then decide? He suggested.
philosophical
A terrible premonition washed over me. This was how the whole world would end.. They would devour the forest and excrete piles of buildings made of stone wrenched from the earth or from dead trees. They would hammer paths of bare stone between their dwellings, and dirty the rivers and subdue the land until it could recall only the will of man. They could not stop themselves from doing what they did. They did not see what they did, and even if they saw, they did not know how to stop. They no longer knew what was enough.
environment
The fight isn't over until you win.
victory fight win
Besides, if there were no dragons of flesh and blood and fire, whence would come the idea for these stone carvings?
dragons
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