10 quotes found
“As long as you believe it is impossible, you close your mind to understanding it.”
“One must plan for the future and anticipate the future without fearing the future.”
“For the weakest has but to try his strength to find it, and then he shall be strong.”
“That no man can truly imagine being happy and that's why happiness isn't for sale here.”
“Somehow," she said coldly, "you have confused profitable and not profitable for right and wrong. I, however, have not.”
“I can see that you go through life athwart it. You see the flow of events, you are able to tell how you could most easily fit yourself into it. But you dare to oppose it. And why? Simply because yo...”
“Refuse anxiety. When you borrow trouble against what might be, you neglect the moment you have now to enjoy. The man who worries about what will next be happening to him loses this moment in dread ...”
“Back when he had first come to the monastery, they had given him a very simple ritual called Forgiving the Day. Even the youngest child could do this; all it required was looking back over the day ...”
“Gankis lifted an arm to point at the distant shale cliffs. "And in the face of it there were thousands of little holes, little what-you-call-'ems...""Alcoves," Kennit supplied in an almost dreamy v...”
“When the mainstay of one's world is taken away, it's only natural to cling to all the rest, to try desperately to keep things as close to the way they were as one can." He shook his head sorrowfull...”
