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| dbaa091 | Because she too was an Odonian, and the separation of means and ends was, to her too, false. For her as for him, there was no end. There was process: process was all. You could go in a promising direction or you could go wrong, but you did not set out with the expectation of ever stopping anywhere. All responsibilities, all commitments thus understood took on substance and duration. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 3e67f29 | By the time I wrote this book I needed to look at heroics from outside and underneath, from the point of view of the people who are not included. The ones who can't do magic. The ones who don't have shining staffs or swords. Women, kids, the poor, the old, the powerless. Unheroes, ordinary people--my people. I didn't want to change Earthsea, but I needed to see what Earthsea looked like to us. | elderly feminism heroes heroics heroism women | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 5f7be5b | On the second night all creatures woke, and the sleepless cricket was silent suddenly. The thunder spoke from ridge to ridge, from canyon to canyon, far, then nearer. Darkness split wide open to reveal what it hides. Only for a moment can the eyes of the creatures see the world in that awful light. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 6a1b213 | 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, | life-lessons pain | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 1d9948b | I wish we could stop using the word belief in matters of fact, leaving it where it belongs, in matters of religious faith and secular hope. I believe we'd avoid a lot of unnecessary pain if we did so. | science | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 629397b | My mother was mad, but I was not. My father was old, but I was young. Like Spartan Hellen, 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 | ||
| 7728077 | But the fact is that, starting with Plato's Republic in Philosophy 1-A when I was seventeen, I read utopias as novels. Actually, I still read everything as novels, including history, memoir, and the newspaper. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 634cfc9 | Esta calamidad asolando las tierras. Las artes del hombre olvidadas. El cantor enmudecido. El ojo ciego. ?Y entonces? Un falso rey reinando. Reinando para siempre. Y sobre los mismos subditos para siempre. No mas nacimientos; no mas vidas nuevas. No mas ninos. Solo lo que es mortal engendra vida, Arren. Solo en la muerte hay renacimiento. El Equilibrio no es inmovilidad. Es un movimiento... un eterno devenir. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 715c1a2 | To him a thinking man's job was not to deny one reality at the expense of the other, but to include and to connect. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| a2410c9 | Try to choose carefully, Arren, when the great choices must be made. When I was young, I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at the latter like a trout to a fly. But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again. Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be. Or wonder wh.. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 75dc9b0 | I like men very much, but sometimes ... they're so stupid, so stuffed with theories .... They go in straight lines only, and won't stop. It's dangerous to do that. It's dangerous to leave everything up to the men, you know. That's one reason why I'd like to go home, at least for a visit. To see what Elia with his theories, and my dear young Lev with his ideals, are up to. I get worried they'll go too fast and too straight and get us into a .. | men straight-lines women | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 5c00d09 | His themes were not pride and love at all, though he used the words perpetually; as he used them they meant self-praise and hate. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 8751178 | Pregnant women have no ethics. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| aa79b59 | He was aware that in thus relegating to irrelity a major portion of the only reality, the only existence, that he in fact did have, he was running exactly the same risk the insane mind runs: the lossof the sense of free will. He knew that in so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void. But the void was there. This life lacked realness; it was hollow; .. | reality science-fiction | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 8a36fd8 | His words cost him so much, she thought, not like hers that just came dancing out of the air and went back into it. He spoke from his marrow. It made what he said a solemn compliment, which she accepted gratefully... | solemnity speech | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 0132601 | When I take you to the Valley, you'll see the blue hills on the left and the blue hills on the right, the rainbow and the vineyards under the rainbow late in the rainy season, and maybe you'll say, "There it is, that's it!" But I'll say. "A little farther." We'll go on, I hope, and you'll see the roofs of the little towns and the hillsides yellow with wild oats, a buzzard soaring and a woman singing by the shadows of a creek in the dry seas.. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| e0ed3b1 | He listened to the radio, but it would not listen to him. He was all alone, and nothing seemed to be real in solitude. He needed somebody, anybody, to talk to, he had to tell them what he felt so that he knew if he felt anything. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| ebb70ea | To enter with heart and mind into the world of the imagination may be to head deliberately and directly toward, or back toward, engagement with the real world. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 578678c | What can you do to evil but refuse it? Not pretend it isn't there, but look at it, and know it, and refuse it. Punishment, what is punishment? Getting even, schoolboy stuff. The Bible God, vengeance is mine! And then it flips over and goes too far the other way, forgive them for they know not what they do. Who does know? I don't. But I have tried to know. I don't forgive a person who doesn't try to know, doesn't want to know if he does evil.. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 0962c83 | I was afraid I'd fail. So I didn't work.' | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 771a2ba | You want to work spells,' Ogion said presently, striding along. 'You've drawn too much water from that well. Wait. Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine times patience. What is that herb by the path?' 'Strawflower.' 'And that?' 'I don't know.' 'Fourfoil, they call it.' Ogion had halted, the coppershod foot of his staff near the little weed, so Ged looked closely at the plant, and plucked a dry seedpod from it, and finally asked, since Ogion .. | herbalist magic mastery patience plants | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 80fd9bc | You can't change anything from outside it. Standing apart, looking down, taking the overview, you see the pattern. What's wrong, what's missing. You want to fix it. But you can't patch it. You have to be in it, weaving it. You have to be part of the weaving. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| c39b228 | There's something about the way she says it that makes me feel strange... It dawns on me that I am jealous. Jesus. I can't believe I'm feeling jealous of a multimillionaire rock star geezer old enough to be Clare's dad. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 24e0a68 | Tenho medo de que voce se canse de nao poder contar comigo para nada e me largue. (...) - Nunca vou largar voce - diz. - Ainda que voce viva me largando. - Mas eu nunca quero te largar. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 87f34a5 | Eu me lembro, eu me lembro. Acordei de manha e foi tudo um sonho maravilhoso. Mamae riu, dizendo que viagem no tempo parecia ser uma coisa divertida e que queria tentar tambem. Essa foi a primeira vez. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 0e63207 | The only thing we can do is to say 'Fuck it' over and over again, really loud, until someone stops us. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| fd57db7 | No." Valentina closed her eyes. Of course not. "It'll be great, Mouse. We'll have our own apartment, we won't have to work," | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| a5c335c | When you realize that people treat you according to how they see themselves rather than how you really are, you are less likely to be affected by their behavior. Your self-image will reflect who you are, not how you're treated by others. You will not be riding an emotional roller roaster. This type of stability will have a tremendous effect on how you feel toward and deal with others. The key to successful relationships really gets down to .. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 39571f8 | Value people. Praise effort. Reward performance. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| dd6bfaf | While we don't always get what we want, we always get what we choose. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 66e5c4e | Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is often painful. But we need to recognize that there are really two kinds of pain when it comes to our daily conduct. There's the pain of self-discipline and the pain of regret. Most people avoid the pain of self-discipline because it's the easy thing to do. What they may not realize is that the pain of self-discipline is momentary but the pay-off is long lasting. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 49c30ee | Clearly, if leaders have a strong set of ethical values and live them out, then people will respect them, not just their position. Immature leaders try to use their position to drive high performance. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 510b4f2 | When somebody loves you with no strings attached and no personal agenda, it's the most freeing thing in the world. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 700e345 | To reach your potential you must grow. And to grow, you must be highly intentional about it. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| f84ec8e | Believe in what you say. Then, live what you say. There is no greater credibility than conviction in action. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| bb5a024 | There's an Arabian proverb that says if you stop every time a dog barks, your road will never end. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 80aa8b2 | Nothing much happens without a dream. For something really great to happen, it takes a really great dream. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 8a12e1d | the strength of the team is impacted by its weakest link. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 77857e4 | You can't take the team to the next level when you haven't mastered the skills it takes to succeed on a personal level. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| eeb1fd5 | Life begins at the end of our comfort zone. We go there by stretching. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| dba953a | La humildad no es negar sus fortalezas. La humildad es ser sincero acerca de sus debilidades". --Rick Warren" | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 720ac6d | what gets rewarded gets done. If you praise and honor the people who epitomize the values of the team, those values get embraced and upheld by other members of the team. There is no better reinforcement. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 18fa325 | People say there are two great days in a person's life: the day you were born and the day you discover why. I | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 13ca85e | If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten." - Tony Robbins" | DOTCHAMOU ZAKARI |