The world is your exercise book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, though you may express reality there if you wish. You are also free to write lies, or nonsense, or to tear the pages.

Richard Bach
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The world is your exercise book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, though you may express reality there if you wish. You are also free to write lies, or nonsense, or to tear the pages. This quote is an interesting one.

It presents an interesting view of what it means to be in control of one’s life. We are all responsible for our actions, but the world doesn’t always act in line with how we would like it to. So when we act in a way that seems contrary to what the world wants us to do, we often get punished for it later.

This is because the world doesn’t always act in line with our best intentions.

Source: Illusions: The Adventures Of A Reluctant Messiah

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