"You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere."

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Source : Ursula K. LeGuin (2015). “The Dispossessed”, p.130, Hachette UK

Ursula K. Le Guin

#Revolution Quotes #Mindfulness Quotes #Spirit Quotes

“Rambo only exists in the movies.”
“Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.”
“The biggest lie in choosing is, "I can't." That is simply not true. We can do anything we want If we don't do something, it is because we have committed our time, energy and resources somewhere else.”
“Katy was neither a Methodist nor a Masochist. She was a goddess and the silence of goddesses is genuinely golden. None of your superficial plating. A solid, twenty-two-carat silence all the way through. The Olympian's trap is kept shut, not by an act of willed discretion, but because there's really nothing to say. Goddesses are all of one piece. There's no internal conflict in them. Whereas the lives of people like you and me are one long argument. Desires on one side, woodpeckers on the other. Never a moment of real silence.”
“In 2011, agricultural exports hit a record high and producers saw their best incomes in nearly 40 years.”
“Every war is a national misfortune.”
“A rocket is an experiment; a star is an observation.”
“Hell itself must yield to industry.”

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