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“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.”
― Nikola Tesla

“Evil is powerful, but good is more powerful. In fact, evil is so powerful that only good has the power to overcome evil. Darkness can be driven away only by light.”
― Jay E. Adams, How to Overcome Evil

“Good times become good memories, but bad times become good lessons.”
― Uncle Iroh

“In the darkest times, hope is something you give yourself. That is the meaning of inner strength.”
― Uncle Iroh

“Humans think in stories rather than in facts, numbers or equations, and the simpler the story, the better.”
― Yuval Noah harrari

“An old man says to his grandson: ‘There’s a fight going on inside me. It’s a terrible fight between two wolves. One is evil–angry, greedy, jealous, arrogant, and cowardly. The other is good–peaceful, loving, modest, generous, honest, and trustworthy. These two wolves are also fighting within you, and inside every other person too.’ After a moment, the boy asks, ‘Which wolf will win?’ The old man smiles. ‘The one you feed.’ 3”
― Rutger Bregman, Humankind: A Hopeful History

“If we believe most people can't be trusted, that's how we'll treat each other, to everyone's detriment. Few ideas have as much power to shape the world as our view of other people. Because ultimately, you get what you expect to get.”
― Rutger Bregman, Humankind A Hopeful History / Utopia for Realists And How We Can Get There

“Come let us mock at the great
That had such burdens on the mind
And toiled so hard and late
To leave some monument behind,
Nor thought of the levelling wind.
Come let us mock at the wise;
With all those calendars whereon
They fixed old aching eyes,
They never saw how seasons run,
And now but gape at the sun.
Come let us mock at the good
That fancied goodness might be gay,
And sick of solitude
Might proclaim a holiday:
Wind shrieked -- and where are they?
Mock mockers after that
That would not lift a hand maybe
To help good, wise or great
To bar that foul storm out, for we
Traffic in mockery.”
― W.B. Yeats

“A leader is best
When people barely know he exists
Of a good leader, who talks little,
When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
They will say, “We did this ourselves.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”
― Isaac Asimov

“A Man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist him.”
― Aleister Crowley

“The wind is rising! . . . We must try to live!”
― Paul Valéry

“It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

“From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether they have speech or not, and in later years he strove long to learn what can be learned, in silence, from the eyes of animals, the flight of birds, the great slow gestures of trees.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

“You thought, as a boy, that a mage is one who can do anything. So I thought, once. So did we all. And the truth is that as a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing, but does only and wholly what he must do. . . .”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

“It is no secret. All power is one in source and end, I think. Years and distances, stars and candles, water and wind and wizardry, the craft in a man's hand and the wisdom in a tree's root: they all arise together. My name, and yours, and the true name of the sun, or a spring of water, or an unborn child, all are syllables of the great word that is very slowly spoken by the shining of the stars. There is no other power. No other name.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

“Ged 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.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

“Le vent se lève! . . . il faut tenter de vivre!
L'air immense ouvre et referme mon livre,
La vague en poudre ose jaillir des rocs!
Envolez-vous, pages tout éblouies!
Rompez, vagues! Rompez d'eaux réjouies
Ce toit tranquille où picoraient des focs!”
― Paul Valéry, Le cimetière marin / El cementerio marino

“I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.

I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.

And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path.

Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.

Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.”
― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

“The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon,
The winds that will be howling at all hours,
And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers,
For this, for everything, we are out of tune;
It moves us not.—Great God! I'd rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.”
― William Wordsworth, The Major Works

“When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all.”
― Matt Groening

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
― C.G. Jung

“Between stimulus and response, there is space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and freedom.”
― Viktor Frankl

“...you're going to find people from all over the country, everyone hungry for money and position. You won't make a name for yourself just doing what the next man does. You'll have to distinguish yourself in some way.”
― Eiji Yoshikawa, Musashi

“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“Life is all about you and not at all about you
Now, that's two opposing thoughts and yet both of them are true.
How can you experience everything you choose to do
While observing the experience you're having from a higher view?
See, it's the question, not the answer, that's the higher view
Otherwise, you couldn't differentiate between the two.
Awareness? But of who?
You think you hurt me, but I promise I was letting you.
They say we're all one, but where have we been headed to?
I'd rather die free than have to live inside a petting zoo.
I am the journey that I'm getting to.

Gratitude is my destination
My destiny is perfectly aligned with this location.
I am the map, so I travel back in time
I have everything I want 'cause my imagination is mine.
But mind is not enough for me 'cause I am not my mind
I could see it all, but never get to see I'm truly blind.
I could be it all, but all identities intertwine
The moon is only bright 'cause it reflects the sun's shine”
― Adam Schmalholz

“I could not become anything; neither good nor bad; neither a scoundrel nor an honest man; neither a hero nor an insect. And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolation that an intelligent man cannot seriously become anything, that only a fool can become something.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

“Just as Chronos split the heavens from earth, time divided the universe, and destroyed the eternal, changeless being that was the ten-dimensional universe. After that, all civilizations had to exist within the limits of time and space. The universe became the infinite unknown. With time came hope, anticipation, surprise, remembrance, oblivion … and above all, freedom.” “These are meaningless,” said Sophon drily. “Eternity is the only existence.” “That wasn’t how the Lurker felt. It was suffocating under the ten-dimensional universe, with its perfect symmetry and eternal immutability. As the dimensions collapsed, more and more consciousnesses, separated from the unity of the Edenic Age, came to believe in the Lurker’s cause and joined its legion. Risking annihilation, they wanted to join time and to call for yet more time. This was the reason the Master failed, don’t you see? “They need time. Other than the Master, all living beings need time.”
― Baoshu, The Redemption of Time

“Tänä aikana oli näet huonoimmassa asemassa ihminen, joka tahtoi säilyttää silmänsä avoimina ja antoi jokaisen pitää uskonsa. Hänen kimppuunsa näet karkasivat kaikki syytellen ja solvaten häntä veltoksi ja välinpitämättömäksi, tyhmäksi ja paatuneeksi, kovakorvaiseksi ja luopioksi, kunnes hän kiusaantuneena repi vaatteensa ja ummisti silmänsä ja otti ristin tai sarven sen mukaan, miten laski tästä itselleen olevan vähimmin harmia.”
― Mika Waltari, سینوهه