Albert Hofmann Quotes

There's so much to think about when you're becoming an adult, and there's so many great poems about that apprehension and excitement.

Responsibility's like a string we can only see the middle of. Both ends are out of sight.

Those who are innocent today may be guilty tomorrow.

I hope, George, that you know what you're doing.

Every choice you make has higher stakes - or that's how it feels.

Somehow, she had grown into a woman in between the fall of kings and collapse of worlds. Once she had been terrified of change. Then she had been terrified of losing Elend. Now her fears were more nebulous - worries of what would come after she was gone, worries of what would happen to the people of the empire if she failed.

Every action and decision we take – or don’t – ripples into the future. For the first time we have the capability, the technology, and the knowledge to direct these ripples.

That's part of being an artist; you have to be that sensitive.

I care a lot; I'm very sensitive.

You're getting to be a big boy,' I said desperately, 'it's time you started thinking about your future.' 'I'm thinking about my future,' said Sonny, grimly. 'I think about it all the time.

The world has raised its whip; where will it descend?

All I know is that the stable is empty, and the horse is gone. The rest I don't know. Whether [in the future] it be a curse or a blessing, I can't say. All we can see is a fragment. Who can say what will come next [and what is good or bad in the long run]?

Destiny is a tower of cards - nudge one just an inch and everything stacked on top comes crashing down. P116

You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act.

A tiny change today brings us to a dramatically different tomorrow. There are grand rewards for those who pick the high hard roads, but those rewards are hidden by years. Every choice is made in the uncaring blind, no guarantees from the world around us.

The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.

I'm sure I never used to be so sensitive. I think it is due to this nervous condition.

In order to grow, you must accept new responsibilities, no matter how uncertain you may feel or how unprepared you are to deal with them.

The world is still spinning and so are we and so are you. When the spinning stops - that'll be the time to worry. Not before.

Whenever you make a big decision in life, at least any decision where you have a viable alternative, there is an inevitable uneasy aftermath. Anxiety is merely a sign that you're taking something seriously.

I suppose I'll always be over-vulnerable, slightly paranoid.

Embarrassment, or the risk of it, accompanies all your important choices.

You put together two people who have not been put together before. Sometimes it is like that first attempt to harness a hydrogen balloon to a fire balloon: do you prefer crash and burn, or burn and crash? But sometimes it works, and something new is made, and the world is changed. Then, at some point, sooner or later, for this reason or that, one of them is taken away. and what is taken away is greater than the sum of what was there. this may not be mathematically possible; but it is emotionally possible.

Troubles impending always seem worse than troubles surmounted, but this does not prove that they really are.

I know peace exists. And we are always changing. It's scary.