There was something in a tome I once read. What is the good of dragging up sufferings that are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then?

What you will learn is knowledge that you cannot share within the mortal world. Possessing it will make you different from others. It will give you great wisdom, Phae. However, in much wisdom is much grief. And they that increase knowledge also increase sorrow. As you learn the truth, you will grieve. But I promise you that the fruit of that knowledge, while bitter to the taste, is also most sweet too.

The worse a person is, the less he feels it.

Work has a way of cleansing the mind.

In a controversy, the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. – Richard.

But the most rare are the ones that are both invisible to us and to others. Those we are blind to. They may be our greatest weakness of all.

That’s the thing about stories. They can touch on truths that some people just are not ready to hear.

To fully master your mind, you must learn not to react to being observed by others. We naturally seek to please. To be acceptable. And in so doing, we give others – even our loved ones – power over our minds.” He shook his bald head and gave her a fierce look. “Never let another person have control over your thinking. It is yours by right and by destiny.

A wise leader, a past King of Wayland actually, wrote this in his personal history at the end of his very successful reign. I found his advice in the Archives and think it some of the wisest advice ever written: ‘Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

When he read, it was as if he were transported to some dreamland where he could not hear whispers or shouting.