“ I cannot conceive a greater loss to a man than the loss of his self-respect.
“ The pipers will lead you to the vipers.
— Zendo Dejesus Delmoral (via elespiritusantoamen)
“ A human’s choices made in the present affect his/her linear past, as the totality of time is a closed dynamic system. You are eternal in both directions… If you look far enough into your past, you’ll find your future there.
“ But when a wrong, no matter how flagrant, has continued for a long period of time, people get habituated to it, and it becomes difficult to rouse them to a sense of their duty to resist it, and no less difficult to convince the world that it is a wrong at all.
“ Let your happiness depend, not upon external things, but upon your own mind.
“ it is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within that constitutes true progress…