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| c56ac5a | The opposite of every truth is just as true! That's like this: any truth can only be expressed and put into words when it is one-sided. Everything is one-sided which can be thought with thoughts and said with words, it's all one-sided, all just one half, all lacks completeness, roundness, oneness. When the exalted Gotama spoke in his teachings of the world, he had to divide it into Sansara and Nirvana, into deception and truth, into sufferi.. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 644bb9b | But out of all secrets of the river, he today only saw one, this one touched his soul. He saw: this water ran and ran, incessantly it ran, and was nevertheless always there, was always at all times the same and yet new in every moment! Great be he who would grasp this, understand this! He understood and grasped it not, only felt some idea of it stirring, a distant memory, divine voices. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| e7d3e74 | There's something to walking with autumnal thoughts through the evening fog. One likes to compose poems at a time like that. | demian poetry | Hermann Hesse | |
| 3bf365c | He had too much to think about. In the course of his long, useless marches he had sunk deeper and deeper into the tangle of his botched life as into a clump of brambles, and still he had found no meaning or consolation. | introspection life | Hermann Hesse | |
| da2b115 | And occasionally I became very sad over that happiness, because I was well aware it couldn't last. I wasn't meant to exist in the lap of plenty and ease; I needed torment and persecution. I felt that some day I would awaken from those beautiful images of love and once be alone, in the cold world of the others, where there was only solitude or struggle for me, not peace or participation. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 04298fc | Your life will not be flat and dull even though you know that your war will never be victorious. It is far flatter, Harry, to fight for something good and ideal and to know all the time that you are bound to attain it. Are ideals attainable? Do we live to abolish death? No--we live to fear it and then again to love it, and just for death's sake it is that our spark of life glows for an hour now and then so brightly. | steppenwolf | Hermann Hesse | |
| 1dfeffa | Novalis and Dostoyevsky, awaited me just as do the mother, or the wife, the children, maids, dogs and cats in the case of more sensible people. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 518a750 | You know what the greatest tragedy is in the whole world?" said Ginger, not paying him the least attention. "It's all the people who never find out what it is they really want to do or what it is they're really good at. It's all the sons who become blacksmiths because their fathers were blacksmiths. It's all the people who could be really fantastic flute players who grow old and die without ever seeing a musical instrument, so they become b.. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 04e5467 | But she was too big to be a thief, too honest to be an assassin, too intelligent to be a wife, and too proud to enter the only other female profession generally available. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 410d423 | We will not know our own injustice if we cannot imagine justice. We will not be free if we do not imagine freedom. We cannot demand that anyone try to attain justice and freedom who has not had a chance to imagine them as attainable. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| bc9098e | But he had not brought anything. His hands were empty, as they had always been. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| da7b0be | If at moments the facts seem to alter with an altered voice, why then you can choose the fact you like best; yet none of them are false, and it is all one story. | Ursula K. LeGuin | ||
| 7a98a20 | Because you are human beings you are going to meet failure. You are going to meet disappointment, injustice, betrayal, and irreparable loss. You will find you're weak where you thought yourself strong. You'll work for possessions and then find they possess you. You will find yourself -- as I know you already have -- in dark places, alone, and afraid. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 35dd564 | My mother was mad, but I was not. My father was old, but I was young. Like Spartan Helen, I caused a war. She caused hers by letting men who wanted her take her. I caused mine because I wouldn't be given, wouldn't be taken, but chose my man and my fate. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 139d999 | I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain ploughland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? What is love of one's country, is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing. Is it simply self-love? That's a good thing, but one mustn't make .. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| d2125fc | Outside the locked room is the landscape of time, in which the spirit may, with luck and courage, construct the fragile, makeshift, improbable roads and cities of fidelity: a landscape inhabitable by human beings. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| ef79afe | Meaning in art isn't the same as meaning in science. The meaning of the second law of thermodynamics, so long as the words are understood, isn't changed by who reads it, or when, or where. The meaning of Huckleberry Finn is. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 2fea0d0 | So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held in reserve. | childhood coming-of-age earthsea | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 203beec | I was with you at the beginning of your journey. It is right that I should follow you to its end. | companionship friendship journeys | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 347185e | Since he was very young he had known that in certain ways he was unlike anyone else he knew. For a child the consciousness of such difference is very painful, since, having done nothing yet and being incapable of doing anything, he cannot justify it. The reliable and affectionate presence of adults who are also, in their own way, different, is the only reassurance such a child can have; and Shevek had not had it. His father had indeed been .. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 57be994 | I did a lot today. That is, I did something. The only thing I have ever done. I pressed a button. It took the entire willpower, the accumulated strength of my entire existence, to press one damned OFF button. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 2820641 | Fire and fear, good servants, bad lords. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 102b569 | Aeneas' mother is a star?" "No; a goddess." I said cautiously, "Venus is the power that we invoke in spring, in the garden, when things begin growing. And we call the evening star Venus." He thought it over. Perhaps having grown up in the country, among pagans like me, helped him understand my bewilderment. "So do we, he said. "But Venus also became more...With the help of the Greeks. They call her Aphrodite...There was a great poet who pra.. | mythology poetry prayer venus worship | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| a7b534c | I know who you are," she said. "You're my enemy. The true believer. The righteous man with the righteous mission. The one that jails people for reading and burns the books. That persecutes people who do exercises the wrong way. That dumps out the medicine and pisses on it. That pushes the button that sends the drones to drop the bombs. And hides behind a bunker and doesn't get hurt. Shielded by God. Or the state. Or whatever lie he uses to .. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 16b07d6 | Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed understanding or emotion back and forth and amplify it. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 1b02b2b | And I needed a rock. Something to hold onto, to stand on. Something solid. Because everything was going soft, turning into mush, into marsh, into fog. Fog closing in on all sides. I didn't know where I was at all. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| e5a197c | Having intelligence, we must not act in ignorance. Having choice, we must not act without responsibility. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 57364e7 | Owning is owing, having is hoarding. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 8a75fc3 | To make something well is to give yourself to it, to seek wholeness, to follow spirit. To learn to make something well can take your whole life. It's worth it. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 5562d5f | His gentleness was uncompromising; because he would not compete for dominance, he was indomitable. | dominance gentleness | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 937b72c | I hope you'll understand that I am not quoting those great words lightly. I do mean it. Knowledge sets us free, art sets us free. A great library is freedom. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| b8ff08f | There must be darkness to see the stars. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| f347d2d | Master," said Ged, "I cannot take your name from you, not being strong enough, and I cannot trick your name from you, not being wise enough. So I am content to stay here, and learn or serve, whatever you will: unless by chance you will answer a question I have." "Ask it." "What is your name?" The doorkeeper smiled, and said his name; and Ged, repeating it, entered for the last time into that House." | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| dff94af | I never know the heron as it flies at first. What is the slow, wide-winged figure in the sky? Then I see it, like a word in a foreign language, like seeing one's own name written in a strange alphabet and recognizing it, I say it: the heron. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 9638c11 | Nothing remains the same from one moment to the next, you can't step into the same river twice. Life - evolution - the whole universe of space/time, matter/energy - existence itself - is essentially change. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 2429b06 | And he would watch the snow falling, thin and ceaseless, on the empty lands below the window, and feel the dull cold grow within him, till it seemed no feeling was left to him except a kind of weariness. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| c9745e0 | For discipline is the channel in which our acts run strong and deep; where there is no direction, the deeds of men run shallow and wander and are wasted. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 4ebd603 | Boys... You're all idiots" - Carlaine" | Raymond E. Feist | ||
| 2b6f1f3 | Your destiny is now your own to forge as best as you may. | Raymond E. Feist | ||
| a75cdd8 | Don't ever give up hope until the very last moment. If you give up, the game is already over. | Takehiko Inoue | ||
| 7bc246c | Leadership is more disposition than position--influence others from wherever you are. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 9ddaba7 | Why worry about things you can't control when you can keep yourself busy controlling the things that depend on you? | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 309b8cc | The longer you wait to do something you should do now, the greater the odds that you will never actually do it. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 186f5b4 | Creativity requires a willingness to look stupid. | John C. Maxwell |