Ursula K. Le Guin
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
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I arise from dreams of thee in the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing low, and the stars are shining bright.
Joy is not in things, it is in us.
Who is blind ? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb ? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor ? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich ? He who is happy with his lot.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
Love is sweet, delicate, dreamy an eternity of gorgeous moments.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
To live is like to love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
We're sisters under the same mink.
Love is the river of life in the world.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Live life to the fullest.
How many doctors does it take to screw in a light bulb ? That depends on whether it has medical insurance.
Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
It's showtime !
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.
And our bodies are earth. And our thoughts are clay. And we sleep and eat with death.
Come out, come out, wherever you are !
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
He was some kind of a man. What does it matter what you say about people ?
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Think of me as a sex symbol for men who don't give a damn.
Bond. James Bond.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
Now is wanted intense karma-yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.
I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life , that word is love.
When you shoot a mime, should you use blanks ?
You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
Death is something not only mysterious but a great act of purgation. That which continues in a repetitive pattern is degeneration. The pattern may vary according to country, according to climate, according to circumstance, but it is a pattern. Moving in any pattern brings about a continuity and that continuity is part of the degenerating process of man. When there is an ending of continuity, something new can take place. One can understand it instantly if one has understood the whole movement of thought, of fear, hate, love - then one can grasp the significance, instantly, of what death is.
Whatever you are be a good one.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Do not let the reasons for your challenges become the excuses for your failure.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
If you have to drive people that hard to do their job, then you've either got the wrong people, or you've got the right people doing the wrong job.
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
The book you don't read cant help.
You're lit from within, Tracy. You've got fires banked down in you, hearth-fires and holocausts.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
Ideas... they have the power
An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool, shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple, teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep--wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise, follow him.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
Do you think that there is a word that contains all of the vowels? Unquestionably.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
Changes in life are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.
There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
It's like, I became such a good person, I almost forgot... I'm a world class liar, baby !
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
Nature does nothing uselessly.
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
Leave the gun. Take the cannolis.
Seek first to understand and then to be understood.
The vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.