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I was terribly disappointed that I missed the end. Distraught, in fact.” “Oh it’s just the same thing you’ve heard before a hundred times before,” I said. “Prince Gallant kills the dragon but loses the treasure and the girl.” “Ah, a tragedy,” Denna looked down. “Not the ending I’d hoped for, but no more than I expected, I suppose.” “It would be something of a tragedy if it stopped there,” I admitted. “But it depends on how you look at it, really. I prefer to think of it as a story that’s waiting for an appropriately uplifting sequel.”
The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss
Loving behavior includes thought, speech, and action. Therefore it is more pleasant for us to cultivate the noble thought “May all beings be happy” than to think, “I despise him.” A noble thought can manifest in noble behavior.
Loving-Kindness in Plain English
Henepola Gunaratana
Shen Tai, the son of the late General Shen, was the sort of person Lin Fong would have wished to keep at Iron Gate for days or even weeks, such was the spark of the man’s thinking and the unusual pattern of his life. Their conversation over dinner had forced him to acknowledge, ruefully, how impoverished his daily routines and company were here.
Under Heaven
Guy Gavriel Kay
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