| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e0164bc | You must know nothing before you can learn something, and be empty before you can be filled. Is not the emptiness of the bowl what makes it useful? As for laws, a parrot can repeat them word for word. Their spirit is something else again. As for governing, one must first be lowest before being highest. | listen full humble humility learn | Lloyd Alexander | |
| 2b29eae | In the dead of night I stirred. Wakefulness flowed back into me. I was a cup full of sorrow, but that sorrow was stilled, like a pain that abates as long as one does not move. | pain depression sorrow stillness contemplate awaken full numb wakefulness remember | Robin Hobb |