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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 813caea | And mage and sailor are not so far apart; both work with the powers of sky and sea, and bend great winds to the uses of their hands, bringing near what was remote. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 82dc5a6 | In fact, while we read a novel, we are insane - bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren't there, we hear their voices, we watch the battle of Borodino with them, we may even become Napoleon. Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| fe3bdd6 | If your strength is only the other's weakness, you live in fear, | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 1c3ddc3 | And I see a lot of us, the producers, who write the books and make the books, accepting this--letting commodity profiteers sell us like deodorant, and tell us what to publish, what to write. Books aren't just commodities; the profit motive is often in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable--but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Res.. | social-change writing | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 923c8be | They think if people can possess enough things they will be content to live in prison. But I will not believe that. I want the walls down. I want solidarity, human solidarity. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 4540b4f | Indeed it can be seen as our human essence, how few behavioral imperatives we follow. How flexible we are in finding new things to do, new ways to go. How ingeniously, inventively, desperately we seek the right way, the true way, the Way we believe we lost long ago among the thickets of novelty and opportunity and choice... | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| b5a22fe | I don't know. We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark? | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 595ffdc | Go into a dark bar for a bit and have a beer with Dionysios, every now and then. I talk about the gods; I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 0e1f884 | What it made me think about above all is how incredibly much we learn from our birthday to last day - from where the horsies live to the origin of the stars. How rich we are in knowledge, and in all that lies around us yet to learn. Billionaires, all of us. | knowledge learning | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| fd11942 | And he began to see the truth, that [he] had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with his own name, had made himself whole: a man: who, knowing his whole true self, cannot be used or possessed by any power other than himself, and whose life therefore is lived for life's sake and never in the service of ruin, or pain, or hatred, or the dark. | shadow-self true-self wizard | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 5f9a63c | No, that's true ... You hate Orgoreyn, don't you?' 'Very few Orgota know how to cook. Hate Orgoreyn? No, how should I? How does one hate a country, or love one? Tibe talks about it; I lack the trick of it. 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.. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 6582943 | We cried "Sisterhood is powerful!"--and they believed us. Terrified misogynists of both sexes were howling that the house was burning down before most feminists found out where the matches were." | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| f70c3d3 | Anger points powerfully to the denial of rights, but the exercise of rights can't life and thrive on anger. It lives and thrives on the dogged pursuit of justice. | advocacy anger human-rights justice | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 968a350 | How does one hate a country, or love one? Tibe talks about it; I lack the trick of it. 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 plowland 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 .. | nationalism patriotism | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 594dbdb | In the latter months of his own long sickness the Master Herbal had taught him much of the healer's lore, and the first lesson and the last of all that lore was this: Heal the wound and cure the illness, but let the dying spirit go. | death-and-dying healing medicine palliative-care | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| ce2e697 | It is a great deal to ask of a kitten, to defend a man against the armies of the dead. | undead | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| a5dab83 | Pride kept her from confiding in the other girls, and caution kept her from confessing to the older women. | talk | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| b20a6c9 | But in fact, isn't that man's very purpose on earth--to do things, change things, run things, make a better world?" "No!" "What is his purpose, then?" "I don't know. Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, and every part has a useful function. What's the function of a galaxy? I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. What does matter is that we're a part." | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 68ea92f | With ceremony, with forms of politeness and reassurance, they borrowed the waters of the River and its little confluents to drink and be clean and irrigate with, using water mindfully, carefully. They lived in a land that answers greed with drought and death. A difficult land: aloof yet sensitive. | environmental-conservation greed ursula-k-le-guin water | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 2eadde8 | Then Ged pitied her. She was like a white deer caged, like a white bird wing-clipped, like a silver ring in an old man's finger. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| c0ffcbb | Those who build walls are their own prisoners. --Ursula K. Le Guin | Lauren Smith | ||
| 67432f7 | The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| c695843 | The world is always new," said Coro Mena, "however old its roots." | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| dbf8076 | If you want to be a leader, the good news is that you can do it. Everyone has the potential, but it isn't accomplished overnight. It requires perseverance. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 7a3ab78 | It is true: most people are more satisfied with old problems than committed to finding new solutions. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 3c1f395 | A great dream with a bad team is nothing more than a nightmare. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| a570f3a | Poet Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well." | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 8dbdb37 | German poet Herman Hesse wrote, "If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us." I agree with his viewpoint." | John C. Maxwell | ||
| cbf432b | Getters generally don't get happiness; givers get it. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| becd1f4 | There is no life as empty as the self-centered life. There is no life as centered as the self-empty life. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 770d155 | Instead of trying to be great, be part of something greater than yourself. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| b571348 | Paul the Apostle exhorted, "Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others." 74 Make a mental and emotional commitment to look out for the interests of others." | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 9aff711 | Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 822aafd | Leaders see everything with a leadership bias. Their focus is on mobilizing people and leveraging resources to achieve their goals rather than on using their own individual efforts. Leaders who want to succeed maximize every asset and resource they have for the benefit of their organization. For that reason, they are continually aware of what they have at their disposal. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 4690c04 | If at First You Do Succeed, Try Something Harder | John C. Maxwell | ||
| a797302 | Effective teams have teammates who are constantly talking to one another. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 0b9e060 | No one can understand that mysterious thing we call influence . . . yet . . . everyone of us continually exerts influence, either to heal, to bless, to leave marks of beauty; or to wound, to hurt, to poison, to stain other lives. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 80c324f | The problem with popular thinking is that it doesn't require you to think at all." --Kevin Myers" | John C. Maxwell | ||
| ef2abd8 | We must stop assuming that a thing which has never been done before probably cannot be done at all." --Donald M. Nelson" | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 4e6752c | Any married man should forget his mistakes--there's no use in two people remembering the same thing. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 7e44aca | greatest enemy to tomorrow's success is sometimes today's success. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| bc36ae8 | President Abraham Lincoln said, "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." | John C. Maxwell | ||
| aa61034 | If you want to reach your potential and become the person you were created to be, you must do much more than just experience life and hope that you learn what you need along the way. You must go out of your way to seize growth opportunities as if your future depended on it. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 3cb60c2 | Action is what converts human dreams into significance. | John C. Maxwell |