Askeladd'ın son sözleri
Askeladd: Hurry up and finish me off. I am sorry about the wait. My life is yours now. I have used it all up, anyway. Not that I regret any of it. We are enemies, are we not?
Thorfinn: ...you are going to die...?
Askeladd: Do it quick. There is no time
Thorfinn: ...you think this is a joke...? This isn't how it's supposed to be!! Our fight wasn't supposed to end this way!! You can't do this to me!! You can't die!! Get up!! Stand up and fight me right now!! I am the one who's supposed to kill you, you son of a bitch!!
Askeladd: Honestly this is what I hate about kids haven't you given a thought to what you are going to live for after I am dead Thorfinn? Ha ha you haven't, have you? You are hopeless, you know that?
Thorfinn: Shut up none of your fucking business...
Askeladd: Move on Thorfinn. Don't hang on... to this petty bullshit your entire life... You have got to move on go further... You are the son of Thors so venture beyond the world he saw. That's your true battle. Be a true warrior... son of Thors...
“She had thought, in her nocturnal and suicidal hours, that solitude was the problem. But that was because it hadn’t been true solitude. The lonely mind in the busy city yearns for connection because it thinks human-to-human connection is the point of everything. But amid pure nature (or the ‘tonic of wildness’ as Thoreau called it) solitude took on a different character. It became in itself a kind of connection. A connection between herself and the world. And between her and herself.”
The purpose of setting goals is to win the game. The purpose of building systems is to continue playing the game. True long-term thinking is goal-less thinking. It’s not about any single accomplishment. It is about the cycle of endless refinement and continuous improvement. Ultimately, it is your commitment to the process that will determine your progress
When nobody moved, she flapped her hands to shoo us out of the auditorium, like we were so many unwelcome chickens. I loitered until James brushed past me, then followed him out to the loading dock. Alexander was already there, already lighting a spliff.
“That son of a bitch,” he said. “He’s got half as many lines as we do and he’s got the nerve to interrupt our first off-book run? Fuck him.” He sat down, sucked hard on the spliff, then passed it up to James, who took one short drag and handed it back.
“You’re not wrong,” he said as he exhaled, a cloud of white smoke issuing from his lips. “But neither is he.”
Alexander looked mutinous. “Well, fuck you, too.”
“Don’t pout. We should know our lines better. Richard’s called us out on it, is all.”
“Yeah,” I said, “but he was a major dick about it.”
One corner of James’s mouth twitched toward a smile. “True.”
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"It is true: we love life not because we are accustomed to life but because we are accustomed to love.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
And even to me, one who likes life, it seems butterflies and soap bubbles and whatever is of their kind among human beings know most about happiness."
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Power over others is weakness disguised as strength. True power is within, and it is available to you now.
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Now I understand one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is to learn that the things you've believed in all your life aren't true, and nothing is what it appears to be.
Sayfa 50
"Whatever happens, don't descent into desperation. Even though the doors are closed, he would open you a secret path in the end that nobody knows. Although you don't see them, there are many gardens of Eden behind the narrow gates. Be thankful! It is easy to thank when you achieved what you want. Sufi is the one who could thank even his/her wish does not come true."
(Başına ne gelirse gelsin, karamsarlığa kapılma. Bütün kapılar kapansa bile, sonunda O sana kimsenin bilmediği gizli bir patika açar. Sen şu anda göremesen de, dar geçitler ardında nice cennet bahçeleri var. Şükret! İstediğini elde edince şükretmek kolaydır. Sufi, dileği gerçekleşmediğinde de şükredebilendir.)
Humans have the ability to make dreams come true. This power is a grace given to them. It means that we can ascribe any meaning to a thing and believe it when we look at it. Who could keep one from doing this?
Consciousness is an unlimited mystery. Just like the universe.
(İnsan her türlü yeteneği gerçek kılma yeteneğine sahiptir. Bu güç ona verilmiş büyük bir lütuftur. Yani bir şeye bakarken ona dilediğimiz anlamı yükler ve inanabiliriz. Kim buna engel olabilir ki? Zihin sınırsız bir gizemdir tıpkı evren gibi.)
Those who have not found their true wealth, which is the radiant joy of Being and the deep, unshakable peace that comed with it, are beggars, even if they have great material wealth.
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