Previously: Addicted2thaseeker

Some of my favorite book series (that I would recommend to absolutely everyone, no matter your age) would be:

Terry Goodkind's The Sword of Truth series, Cassandra Clare's Mortal Instruments series, Richelle Mead's Vampire Academy Series, Melissa De La Cruz's Blue Bloods series, Susanne Collins' Hunger Games trilogy, Veronica Roth's Divergent, Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, Becca Fitzpatrick's Hush Hush series and P. C. Cast's Divine series.

Twelve Rules in Which I Live By:

1: People are stupid; they will believe something because they want it to be true or because they're afraid it might be true:

-- Given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they're afraid it might be true. People's heads are full of knowledge, facts and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool

2: The greatest harm can result from the best intentions:

-- Kindness and good intentions can be an insidious path to destruction. Sometimes doing what seems right is wrong, and can cause harm. The only counter to it is knowledge, wisdom, forethought, and understanding the First Rule. Even then, that is not always enough

3: Passion rules reason; for better or for worse:

-- Letting your emotions control your reason may cause trouble for yourself and those around you.

4: There is magic in sincere forgiveness; in the forgiveness you give, but more so in the forgiveness you receive.

5: Mind what people do, not what they say for deeds will betray a lie:

-- No matter what your affiliation is, either friend or foe, you should watch the person's actions instead of the lies that they use to decieve you.

6: The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason:

-- The first law of reason is this: what exists, exists; what is, is; and from this irreducible bedrock principle, all knowledge is built. It is the foundation from which life is embraced.

-- Thinking is a choice. Wishes and whims are not facts nor are they a means to discover them. Reason is our only way of grasping reality; it is our basic tool of survival. We are free to evade the effort of thinking, to reject reason, but we are not free to avoid the penalty of the abyss that we refuse to see. Faith and feelings are the darkness to reason's light. In rejecting reason, refusing to think, one embraces death.

7: Life is the future, not the past:

-- The past can teach us, through experience, how to accomplish things in the future, comfort us with cherished memories, and provide the foundation of what has already been accomplished. But only the future holds life. To live in the past is to embrace what is dead. To live life to its fullest, each day must be created anew. As rational, thinking beings, we must use our intellect, not a blind devotion to what has come before, to make rational choices.

8: Talga Vassternich - or - Deserve victory:

-- Be justified in your convictions. Be completely committed. Earn what you want and need rather than waiting for others to give you what you desire.

9: A contradiction cannot exist in reality. Not in part, nor in whole:

-- To believe in a contradiction is to abdicate your belief in the existence of the world around you and the nature of the things in it, to instead embrace any random impulse that strikes your fancy - to imagine something is real simply because you wish it were. A thing is what it is, it is itself. There can be no contradictions.

-- Faith is a device of self-delusion, a sleight of hand done with words and emotions founded on any irrational notion that can be dreamed up. Faith is the attempt to coerce truth to surrender to whim. In simple terms, it is trying to breathe life into a lie by trying to outshine reality with the beauty of wishes. Faith is the refuge of fools, the ignorant, and the deluded, not of thinking, rational men.

-- In reality, contradictions cannot exist. To believe in them you must abandon the most important thing you possess: your rational mind. The wager for such a bargain is your life. In such an exchange, you always lose what you have at stake.

10: Willfully turning aside from the truth is treason to one's self:

-- The truth is what should motivate your life, not the lies, or you will fall victim to the first rule and if you ignore the truth you're betraying everything that you believe in, because the lie is more convenient to you than reality.

11: Seek the truth not through others, but through yourself:

-- One must always seek the truth in life for themselves, rather than simply believing that which they are told without their own rational understanding and justification for that belief. Failure to do so can lead to a life of clinging to empty promises and following trails of false hope. The knowledge gained through seeking the truth, if used for the purposes of good, is the key to enjoying life to its fullest. Those who use the truth for hate however, only betray themselves.

12: You can destroy those who speak the truth but you cannot destroy the truth itself.

QUOTES:

The Doctor: Yeah? Well I'm the Lord of Time.

The Doctor: Alright. Many things about this are not good.

The Doctor: Oh ho ho... brilliant! It's you! You're my favorite, you are. You are the best. You know why? 'Cause you're so thick! You're Mr. Thick Thick Thickety Thickface from Thicktown, Thickania! ... And so's your dad!

The Doctor: Nah. Nothing here. Well, nothing dangerous. Well, not that dangerous. Know what, I'll just have a quick scan. In case of something dangerous.

Zeddicus Z'ul Zorander: Only a fool walks into the future backwards.

Vishnu: I am become Death, destroyer of worlds.

Ivan L. Moody: It's the world I've grown to know, unforgiving and so cold. Take it away, take it away, I don't want it

Ivan L. Moody: It's the life I'm forced to live, I've got nothing more to give. Take it away, take it away, I don't want it anymore.

Ivan L. Moody: I am what you fear most; Anarchy

Ivan L. Moody: I will not be forgotten, this is my time to shine. I've got the scars to prove that only the strong survive. I'm not afraid of dying, everyone has their time. Life never favoured weakness, welcome to the pride.

Douglas Adams: In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

Lynn Gunn: You can't cheat death when you're digging your own grave.

Lynn Gunn: You can right all the wrongs just to feel you belong, but simply calling out sins don't make you closer to god.

Lynn Gunn: What you give is what you get; and in your case it's nothing but guilt and regret.

Lynn Gunn: It's hard to find life in something that's already died.

Commander Lexa: Jomp em op en yu jomp ai op (attack her and you attack me).

Nick Harkaway: I love you forever. I am sorry I cannot love you now.

Root: The universe is infinite, and chaotic, and cold, and there has never been a plan; at least, not until now.

Peter Collier: You're supposed to lock up the criminals, not create them.

Shaw: Root, no offense, you're hot, you're good with a gun; those are two qualities I greatly admire. But you and me together would be like a four alarm fire in an oil refinery.

Root: The whole point of Pandora's box is that, once you've opened it, you can't close it again. She wanted me to remind you of how the story ends; when everything is over, when the worst has happened; there's still one thing left in Pandora's box. Hope.

Harold Finch: How much wrong are we willing to do in the name of right?

Samaritan Interface: This world is a cesspool of crime, corruption, and poverty. Where there isn't war, there is greed; where there isn't greed, there's hunger. Root: You can't change humanity. Samaritan Interface: No, but I can re-shape their reality.

Greer: These invisible lines we draw in the world; I realized they have no meaning. Why should a man lose his life for something illusory?

Shaw: You paid me to save him, not listen to him talk.

Finch: Anyone who looks on the world as if it were a game of chess, deserves to lose.

Kiersten White: And I'd choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I'd find you and I'd choose you.

Nomi: I am not just a me; I am a we. And we march with Pride.

Shaw: To be honest, I'm only in it for the dog.