“Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.” ― Lois McMaster Bujold   “If you can’t be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.” ― Lois McMaster Bujold   “Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can’t trade for your heart’s desire is your heart.” ― Lois McMaster Bujold   “When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.” ― Lois McMaster Bujold   “I’ve always thought tests are a gift.…

“And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.” ― Lord Byron   “There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more” ― Lord Byron     “In secret we met In silence I grieve, That thy heart could forget, Thy spirit deceive.” ― Lord Byron   “Always laugh when you can, it is cheap medicine.” ― Lord Byron     “She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best…

“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.” ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca   “True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.” ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca   “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca   “All cruelty springs from weakness.” ― Lucius…