But how else can we live, these days, except in the midst of ruin?

Margaret Atwood

Tag: life ruin

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Rushing into action, you fail.
Trying to grasp things, you lose them.
Forcing a project to completion,
you ruin what was almost ripe.

Therefore the Master takes action
by letting things take their course.
He remains as calm at the end
as at the beginning.
He has nothing,
thus has nothing to lose.
What he desires is non-desire;
what he learns is to unlearn.
He simply reminds people
of who they have always been.
He cares about nothing but the Tao.
Thus he can care for all things.

Lao Tzu

Tag: calm completion action desire ruin fail tao lose learn care grasp ripe forcing

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I knew that I had turned my world back to cinders, sunk my lovely ship with my own stupid, wicked hands.

Mary Stewart

Tag: ruin self-destruction mary-stewart nine-coaches-waiting

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Time was the most precious thing in the world to me, and I’d just given her all of it. Because I was falling for her. Because I cared for her. Because I wanted to give her something to remember me by, even if it would eventually fade like its namesake. Time… what an absolute horror-inducing word

Rachel Van Dyken

Tag: love time death ruin

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Everybody is equally weak on the inside, just that some present their ruins as new castles and become kings –

Simona Panova

Tag: fear strength present power strong romance fiction weak weakness mystery force self-image play suspense castle gothic ruin queen young-adult powerful pretend nobody mysterious image destroy mask king everyone ghost general ruins inside outside destroyed everybody abandon gothic-romance stronghold fortress freya no-one devastated cardew fort

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