Just 3 Quotes - 08.03.2020
3 quotes from 3 books. Sent weekly.
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—Mark
“They can throw us in jail, label us, deprive us of our possessions, but they’ll never control our thoughts, our beliefs, our reactions. Which is to say, we are never completely powerless.”
—The Obstacle Is The Way, by Ryan Holiday (2014)
“‘There are no accidents,’ she’d say, sternly looking down at the eight-year-old offender with the two broken pieces of some dish in her soapy hands. ‘Only carelessness.’”
—Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef, by Gabrielle Hamilton (2012)
“A person never comes to know society through books, as people have said before, but what they haven't said is the reason: here it is. It's because knowledge of society is the result of a thousand small observations that a person’s pride wouldn't confide to anyone, even to his best friend. A person is afraid to present himself as occupied with little things, even though these little things are very important for the success of great ones.”
—Complete Maxims and Thoughts, by Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort (1824)