The act itself does not move me, but In a world of 8 billion finding the other person who is the same sort of insane to do with with you is terribly romantic
Maester Aemon didn’t get banished to the Wall, he literally chose a lifetime of freezing in black rags just to keep his own family from butchering each other.
He was actually offered the Iron Throne first, but he knew his existence would just give scheming lords an excuse to spark a civil war against his younger brother. To completely remove himself from the political chessboard and protect his brother's claim, he took the black and gave up his royal name forever. It’s the ultimate sacrifice from a guy who cared way more about peace than a golden chair.
He spent the next seventy years watching his entire dynasty slowly burn itself alive from the coldest place on earth.
Society collectively needs to stop making excuses for awful behaviour.
There are BILLIONS of people around the world who grew up in suboptimal conditions and they don't use it as an excuse to be a criminal or degenerate.
Tolerance of evil isn't a virtue.
I'm finally reading Dune. This quote, which is in the first few pages, hits hard:
"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."
You cannot spend years breaking a child's spirit and then expect a few words in adulthood to repair what took years to destroy. You cannot teach a child to fear your footsteps, your voice, your moods, and your anger, then expect them to see you as a source of comfort later in life.
Human approval is unstable. Someone may praise you today and criticize you tomorrow, so it's wiser to anchor your life in deeper principles than in other people's opinions.
i believe in re-reading and re-watching your favourite books & movies at different stages of your life. the plot never changes, but your perspective does.
There is a saying in Togo: even in times of famine, you do not eat from just any trash.
I have been thinking about it since the Kenyan government agreed to build an Ebola treatment centre on its soil for American patients.There is truly no floor, no depth beneath which African leaders will not descend in their eagerness to demonstrate loyalty to foreign powers and collect whatever token of approval is offered in return.
Wrote this when Kenya signed the US health pact. This Ebola quarantine facility seems less about the disease and more about lopsided transactions that Kenya is getting into with the US: https://t.co/lNxqsD4brg