What a comfort the past is, Mimen said, when the future offers none.
We’re a rough people, born of oak, as they say, here in the western land; tempers run high, weapons are always at hand.
We’re a lot of newcomers, see, for my Lord Meshe was born 2,202 years ago, but the Old Way of the Handdara goes back ten thousand years before that. You have to go back to the Old Land if you’re after...
Well, we think that time 'passes,' flows past us, but what if it is we who move forward, from past to future, always discovering the new? It would be a little like reading a book, you see. The book is...
Well, this. That we’re ashamed to say we’ve refused a posting. That the social conscience completely dominates the individual conscience, instead of striking a balance with it. We don’t cooperate — we...
We're in the world, not against it. It doesn't work to try to standoutside things and run them, that way. It just doesn't work, it goes against life. There is a way but you have to follow it. The worl...
We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel – or have done and thought and felt; or might do and think and feel – is an essential guide to our und...
We men dream dreams, we work magic, we do good, we do evil. The dragons do not dream. They are dreams. They do not work magic: it is their substance, their being. They do not do; they are.
We left with empty hands, a hundred and seventy years ago, and we were right. We took nothing. Because there is nothing here but States and their weapons, the rich and their lies, and the poor and the...
We demand a rebellious spirit of those who have no chance to learn that rebellion is possible, but we the privileged hold still and see no evil.
WE stowed the wheels, uncapped the sledge-runners, put on our sis, and took off -- down, north, onward, into that silent vastness of fire an ice that said in enormous letters of black and white DEATH,...
Vermediğiniz şeyi alamazsınız, kendinizi vermeniz gerekir. Devrim'i satın alamazsınız. Devrim'i yapamazsınız. Devrim olabilirsiniz ancak.
Vad hon hade börjat lära sig var hur tungt det kan kännas att bli fri. Friheten är en mäktig börda som ens själ måste bära på. Det är inte så lätt. Det är ingen gåva man får, det är ett val man gör, o...
Una sociedad sólo puede aliviar el sufrimiento social, el sufrimiento innecesario. El resto subsiste. La raíz, la realidad. Todos nosotros, los que estamos aquí, vamos a conocer el dolor; si vivimos c...
Ultimately you write alone.
To oppose something is to maintain it. They
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.
To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness. Tormenbod
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.
To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past; therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future.