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I began writing about power because I had so little.

I began writing about power because I had so little.
– Octavia E Butler

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  1. Power came the way a child came — with agony. – Octavia E Butler
  2. He rubbed his head again. ‘Five years is longer than it sounds. So much longer. – Octavia E Butler
  3. Consider–We are bornNot with purpose,But with potential. – Octavia E Butler
  4. People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn’t bother me. It’s other people doing the calling that bothers me. – Octavia E Butler
  5. Was an eternity of absolute ease just another name for hell? – Octavia E Butler
  6. Read every day and learn from what you read. – Octavia E Butler
  7. Prayers only help the person doing the praying, and then, only if they strengthen and focus that person’s resolve. – Octavia E Butler
  8. Everything is so soft here,’ he said, ‘so easy…’ ‘I know – Octavia E Butler
  9. If you work hard enough at something that doesn’t matter, you can forget for a while about the things that do. – Octavia E Butler
  10. BewareAt war Or at peace,More people die Of unenlightened self-interestThan of any other disease – Octavia E Butler
  11. There is no endTo what a living worldWill demand of you. – Octavia E Butler
  12. I lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm. – Octavia E Butler
  13. Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain. – Octavia E Butler
  14. I’m Valerie Rye,’ she said, savoring the words. ‘It’s all right for you to talk to me. – Octavia E Butler
  15. Wisdom from Top Butler: Guard yourself at all times but don’t let anyone lead you to live a guarded life that is all. – Donavan Nelson Butler
  16. You have immense power–power to overcome, power to achieve, power to possess, and power to prosper, making you incredibly irresistible. – Anitra SheltonQuinn
  17. When I began to wait to live I really began to wait to die. – William Saroyan
  18. God’s love did not begin at the cross. It began in eternity before the world was established, before the time clock of civilization began to move. – Billy Graham
  19. The art of writing involves making as many cups of tea as you can in the time available for writing. Then adding extra time for writing… – Alan Dapre
  20. You’re never as good a writer as you think you are, and you’re never as bad. Just keep reading and writing, writing, writing. – Don Roff
  21. Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing… the rest will follow. – Jane Yolen
  22. A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing. – Debasish Mridha
  23. Fear least have power! The power of fear lies in the power of our fears. Without the power of our fears, fear is least empowered! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  24. The power to lead is the power to mislead, and the power to mislead is the power to destroy. – Thomas S Monson
  25. Words have power. The power to soothe. The power to skewer someone through the heart. The power to render someone speechless. – Ellen Hopkins
  26. I love and enjoy writing.Writing is a form of daily communication.It a communication to higher divine power. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  27. He began to realize what the criminal class knows so well, the impossibility of explaining anything to a man with power. – Graham Greene
  28. The power of a thing is not based on the power it actually possesses. Rather, it is much more about the power that we permit it to possess. – Craig D Lounsbrough
  29. Mind-power takes you to the mountaintop. Heart-power takes you the stars. Soul-power takes you to the edge of the universe. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  30. It’s all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power, the same way money is power, the same way a gun is power. – Chuck Palahniuk
  31. No power is born of hate.All power and authority is born of love.Oh, you, who want any power somewhere!Ask yourselves who and what you love? – Osyp Nazaruk
  32. Power does not justify sin. Power is not virtue. Virtue is that which lasts inspite of power – Sweety Shinde
  33. Simplicity gives you the power of freedom.Kindness gives you the power of boldness.Humility gives you the power of acceptance. – Debasish Mridha
  34. Power is lonely. Power stands apart. I have power. Therefore, I’m lonely. – Lesley Howarth
  35. … Remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest. – Margaret Atwood
  36. The more power one gives to his thought–the more completely he believes that his thought has power–the more power will it have. – Ernest Holmes
  37. People who don’t know the power of their mind shall only have power without power – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  38. More love, more power.Less love, less power.Great love, great power. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  39. Sexual power encompasses the power of seduction and the power of pursuit. – Elona Washington
  40. Will without Power is incomplete and power without will is dangerous when will and will power both are present, implementation is easy!!!! – Harrish Sairaman

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