The Simple Life

Why had she always felt that joyous sense of confidence when looking at machines?—she thought. In these giant shapes, two aspects pertaining to the inhuman were radiantly absent: the causeless and the purposeless. Every part of the motors was an embodied answer to ‘Why?’ and ‘What for?’—like the steps of a life-course chosen by the sort of mind she worshipped. The motors were a moral code cast in steel.

Fimbulvetr is 3 winters on a row without summer and then comes Ragnarok. Thor will then kill the big snake, the polar vortex, but the snake will breathe so much poison into his face that also Thor dies at Ragnarok. If that is certain, I don`t know.

He [the train conductor] jerked his head up at the red light. ‘I don’t think the signal’s going to change. I think it’s busted.’ ‘Then what are you doing?’ ‘Waiting for it to change.’

Origin of Hope

The Devil manifests in our hearts by violent irritation. We become so sick with self-love that we cannot endure the slightest contradiction, any spiritual or material obstacles; cannot bear a single, rough, harsh word. But this is the time for endurance.

Water is the desert's gold.

After a day’s walk, everything has twice its usual value.

Leadership development is a lifetime journey - not a brief trip.

Never draw fire; it irritates everyone around you.