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    Walter Scott
    “The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?”
    ― Sir Walter Scott
    tags: pets
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: heart, importance, inspiration, secret, the-little-prince
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “People have forgotten this truth," the fox said. "But you mustn’t forget it. You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed. You’re responsible for your rose.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: inspirational
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    Jon Krakauer
    “Happiness [is] only real when shared”
    ― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
    tags: family, happiness, inspirational, love, marriage
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    Benjamin Hoff
    “Do you really want to be happy? You can begin by being appreciative of who you are and what you've got.”
    ― Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh
    tags: inspirational, taoism, winnie-the-pooh
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    Anatole France
    “Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.”
    ― Anatole France
    tags: animals, love, pets
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “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. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
    tags: art, artists, evil, happiness, pain
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?”
    ― Ursula K. LeGuin
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
    tags: epistemology, future, philosophy
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea
    tags: dragons
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “For we each of us deserve everything, every luxury that was ever piled in the tombs of the dead kings, and we each of us deserve nothing, not a mouthful of bread in hunger. Have we not eaten while another starved? Will you punish us for that? Will you reward us for the virtue of starving while others ate? No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
    tags: ethics, politics
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical...There is no strength to be gained from hurting one another. Only weakness.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin
    tags: darwin, ethics, evolution, peace, strength, survival, survival-of-the-fittest, war
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “But need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea
    tags: knowledge
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “War as a moral metaphor is limited, limiting, and dangerous. By reducing the choices of action to “a war against” whatever-it-is, you divide the world into Me or Us (good) and Them or It (bad) and reduce the ethical complexity and moral richness of our life to Yes/No, On/Off.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea
    tags: conflict, ethics, good-and-evil, life, morals, war
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “Yet a greater, unlearned skill he possessed, which was the art of kindness.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
    tags: anarchism, politics
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    Geoffrey Chaucer
    “The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.”
    ― Geoffrey Chaucer, The Parliament of Birds
    tags: creativity, learning, time
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. You need distance, interval. The way to see how beautiful the earth is, is to see it as the moon. The way to see how beautiful life is, is from the vantage point of death.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
    tags: death-life-p169
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    Dylan Thomas
    “Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.”
    ― Dylan Thomas
    tags: death, lost-love, love, mourning
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    John Donne
    “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.”
    ― John Donne, No man is an island – A selection from the prose
    tags: community, death, isolation, mankind
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    Richard Adams
    “My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.”
    ― Richard Adams, Watership Down
    tags: death, grief, loss
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
    "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: adventuring, death, time
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: encouragement, gandalf
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: faith
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: hope, inspirational, love
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: fantasy, literature, philosophy
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
    tags: lotr, war
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    Frank Herbert
    “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
    tags: bene-gesserit, fear, litany-against-fear, motivational, scifi
    16753 likes



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