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Originally Posted by zzze

assalamu alaykum

yeah, it does

green eggs and ham? isn't that a kids book?

The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" — which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.

from The Wisdom of Muad'Dib by the Princess Irulan

"You've heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap? There's an animal kind of trick. A human would remain in the trap, endure the pain, feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a threat to his kind."

* Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam, testing Paul Atreides with the Gom Jabbar.

No sweeteners will cloak some forms of bitterness. If it tastes bitter, spit it out. That's what our earliest ancestors did.

* The Coda

Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It's shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad'Dib knew that every experience carries its lesson.

* from The Humanity of Muad'Dib by the Princess Irulan

God created Arrakis to train the faithful.

from The Wisdom of Muad'Dib by the Princess Irulan

A world is supported by four things ... the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing ... without a ruler who knows the art of ruling. Make that the science of your tradition!

* Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam, to Paul Atreides

No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero.

*Pardot Kynes to Liet-Kynes

No matter how exotic human civilization becomes, no matter the developments of life and society nor the complexity of the machine/human interface, there always come interludes of lonely power when the course of humankind, depends upon the relatively simple actions of single individuals.

*from The Tleilaxu Godbuk

The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other. Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. You have done violence to him, consumed his energy. Elaborate euphemisms may conceal your intent to kill, but behind any use of power over another the ultimate assumption remains: "I feed on your energy."

*Addenda to Orders in Council The Emperor Paul Muad'dib

Here lies a toppled god —
His fall was not a small one.
We did but build his pedestal,
A narrow and tall one.

* Tleilaxu Epigram

Any delusions of Free Will he harbored now must be merely the prisoner rattling his cage. His curse lay in the fact that he saw the cage. He saw it!

* Narration

Ahh, but the dice cannot read their own spots.

* Bijaz

Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class — whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.

* Politics as Repeat Phenomenon: Bene Gesserit Training Manual

When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.

* Words of an ancient philosopher (Attributed by Harq al-Ada to one Louis Veuillot)

"My uncle Malky use to say that love was a bad bargain because you get no guarantees."
"Your uncle Malky was a smart wise man."
"He was stupid! Love needs no guarantees."

* Hwi Noree and Duncan Idaho

Enemies strengthen you. Allies weaken. I tell you this in the hope that it will help you understand why I act as I do in the full knowledge that great forces accumulate in my Empire with but one wish — the wish to destroy me. You who read these words may know full well what actually happened, but I doubt that you understand it.

o The Stolen Journals

Most civilization is based on cowardice. It's so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water down the standards which would lead to bravery. You restrain the will. You regulate the appetites. You fence in the horizons. You make a law for every movement. You deny the existence of chaos. You teach even the children to breathe slowly. You tame.

o The Stolen Journals

There was a man who sat each day looking out through a narrow vertical opening where a single board had been removed from a wooden fence. Each day a wild ass of the desert passed outside the fence and across the narrow opening — first the nose, then the head, the forelegs, the long brown back, the hindlegs, and lastly the tail. One day the man leaped to his feet with a light of discovery in his eyes and he shouted for all who could hear him: "It is obvious! The nose causes the tail!"

* Stories of the Hidden Wisdom from the Oral History of Rakis

Some people never observe anything. Life just happens to them. They get by on little more than a kind of dumb persistence, and they resist with anger and resentment anything that might lift them out of that false serenity.

* Bashar Miles Teg

Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your own life. The object can be stated this way: Live the best life you can. Life is a game whose rules you learn if you leap into it and play it to the hilt. Otherwise, you are caught off balance, continually surprised by the shifting play. Non-players often whine and complain that luck always passes them by. They refuse to see that they can create some of their own luck.

* Darwi Odrade

Enter no conflict against fanatics unless you can defuse them. Oppose a religion with another religion only if your proofs (miracles) are irrefutable or if you can mesh in a way that the fanatics accept you as god-inspired.

* Missionaria Protectiva, Primary Teaching

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

* The Coda

Ultimately all things are known because you want to believe you know.

* Zensunni koan

There's no secret to balance. You just have to feel the waves.

* Darwi Odrade

Endurance. Belief. Patience. Hope. These are the key words of our existence.

* Zensunni prayer

[Bluestar]

Originally Posted by sally

ahhahah yeah, you're right well..i just really like how he writes i guess. most of the stuff from this story is very idealistic like he lives in a bubble. i just like yeah, his writer imagination/creativity

so i guess it's not really a thoughtful quote i should delete it lest i come off as a naive loser

no don't, it is thoughtful

[Bluestar]

"A man's relationship to his greed is a deeply personal thing, don't you think?"

Shantaram, Gregory David Roberts.

[Blue_Phoenix]

"If there is anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now"

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

[Bluestar]

"Sometimes we love with nothing but hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears. In the end that's all there is: love and it's duty. sorrow and it's truth. In the end that's all we have - to hold on tight until dawn."

Shantaram, Gregory David Roberts

[Sugarcore]

When someone sees the same people every day, they wind up becoming a part of that person's life. And then they want the person to change. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.

I prayed outside because I liked it. Most often I unrolled my prayer rug in a corner of the yard behind the house. It was a secluded spot in the shade of a coral tree, next to a wall that was covered with bougainvillea. Along the length of the wall was a row of potted poinsettas. The bougainvillea had also crept through the tree. The contrast between its purple bracts and the red flowers of the tree was very pretty. And when that tree was in bloom, it was a regular aviary of crows, mynahs, babblers, rosy pastors, sunbirds and parakeets. The wall was to my right, at a wide angle. Ahead of me and to my left, beyond the milky, mottled shade of the tree, lay the sundrenched open space of the yard. The appearance of things changed, of course, depending on the weather, the time of day, the time of year. But it's all very clear in my memory, as if it never changed. I faced Mecca with the help of a line I scratched into the pale yellow ground and carefully kept up.

Life of Pi by Yann Martel.

[Sea_of_Roses]

"Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman."


A Thousand Splendid Suns , Khaled Hosseini

[Blue_Phoenix]

"You are a driver," he said, "and I use the word in the loosest possible sense, i.e., meaning merely somebody who occupies the driving seat of what I will for the moment call - but I use the term strictly without prejudice - a car while it is proceeding along the road, of stupendous, I would even say verging on the superhuman, lack of skill. Do you catch my drift?"
"No"
"I mean you do not drive well. Do you know you've been all over the road for the last seventeen miles"
"Seventeen miles!" exclaimed Kate. "Have you been following me?"
"Only up to a point," said Dirk. "I've tried to stay on this side of the road."

From The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams

[shadha]

"Within a week, the school plucked him out of the classroom and placed him in special ed. The principal sent home a letter recommending that Malcolm be evaluated by a specialist, but Laurel tossed it in the trash. She didn't want Malcolm to be labeled. "Labels are for boxes," she said, "so you never have to look inside them. You just say, 'Oh, I don't need any more of that.' " She wrinkled her nose and waved her hand dismissively as though whatever that was had a terrible odor. "He'll talk when he has something to say," she announced, as if Malcolm's critical faculties were so sophisticated that he had judged the culture and found it unworthy of his participation. "Normal" she said, imitating the special ed teacher. "As if being normal is something to strive for."

-The God of War by Marisa Silver



shadha-

[Omario]

"judge not by ones appearence, but of there acts"

[MossadConspiracy]

Age + BUN = Lasix dose.

[Blue_Phoenix]

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency has too many good ones. It's REALLY hard to narrow the list down.