Book2Dragon

“H stopped suddenly at the sight of the old man's face. "Don't!" wheezed the voice. Take the path as it comes to you, my son, and look not in envy toward him who walks above you nor in tenderness to him who walks below. Happiness lies not in understanding but in accepting. I used to ask questions too, when I was young, and I know.”
― Dorothy Clarke Wilson, Prince of Egypt

“Ours is in reality an Abstract Value society--one in which things are not appreciated for what they are so much as for what they represent.”
― Benjamin Hoff, The Te of Piglet

“The Conservatives (being very religious people, they say) believe that "God helps those who help themselves." And so they help themselves to everything they can get their hands on. But don't expect them to help anyone else. And don't expect them to help the earth.”
― Benjamin Hoff, The Te of Piglet

“His family disapproved of his infatuation with things Chinese. His father, his mother and his sister Judy had lived in China like a family of cats standing on a log in a brook, keeping dry, keeping out of the world flowing past.”
― Marge Piercy, Gone to Soldiers