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... privilege was obligation; command was service; power, the gift itself, entailed a heavy loss of freedom.

… privilege was obligation; command was service; power, the gift itself, entailed a heavy loss of freedom.
– Ursula K Le Guin

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  1. I have this, this gift, I know that; and I know my obligation to it. – Ursula K Le Guin
  2. You are born for service, service is love, service is joy, service brings endless peace and happiness. – Debasish Mridha
  3. The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself. – Ursula K Le Guin
  4. Service is joy, Service is the kindnessService is love, Service is the happiness – Debasish Mridha
  5. Ignorance defends itself savagely, and illiteracy, as I well knew, can be shrewd. – Ursula K Le Guin
  6. He loved Shevek, but he could not show him what freedom is, that recognition of each person’s solitude which alone transcends it. – Ursula K Le Guin
  7. The constrained body knows and values the freedom of the mind. – Ursula K Le Guin
  8. But the human being likes to be challenged, seeks freedom in adversity. – Ursula K Le Guin
  9. It’s a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you’ve been to all the places you don’t need to be. – Ursula K Le Guin
  10. You don’t command wind in the direction it blows, but you command a ship in the direction it sails. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  11. To take command, one must first create the illusion that command is already yours. – Denise Domning
  12. Jesus’ command to love our neighbours is a command to love all strangers precisely because we too have been strangers to God and welcomed in. – Kester Brewin
  13. The Greatest loss in life is the loss of a mother: The second greatest, the loss of Self. – Med Saidi
  14. The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women. – Ursula K Le Guin
  15. If women had power what would men be but women who can’t bear children? And what would women be but men who can? – Ursula K Le Guin
  16. In this he saw that Ogion had been right: the shadow could not draw on his power, so long as he was turned against it. – Ursula K Le Guin
  17. Power inheres in a center. You’re going to the center. – Ursula K Le Guin
  18. A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt. – Ursula K Le Guin
  19. There is no true freedom without time freedom. And there is no time freedom without financial freedom. – Amah Lambert
  20. My freedom to say ‘No’ directly underscores your freedom to say ‘Yes’. RESPECT my freedom to PROTECT your freedom. – Mamur Mustapha
  21. The fear of loss . . . it can destroy you as much as the loss itself. – Sarah J Maas
  22. It’s what the loss uncovers in you that brings on despair, not the loss itself. – Nicci French
  23. If itWere lighter touchThan petal of flower restingOn gr???, oh still too heavy it were,Too heavy! – Adelaide Crapsey
  24. Love yourself as you love your neighbour. If you love your neighbour with a heavy heart, love yourself too with a heavy heart. – Israelmore Ayivor
  25. The thing is heavy. –I’m talking the whole Harry Potter series put together heavy. Those are some great books. Totally inaccurate, but great. – Danielle Ellison
  26. Each soul has special gift. Find your gift for the specific service. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  27. You have immense power–power to overcome, power to achieve, power to possess, and power to prosper, making you incredibly irresistible. – Anitra SheltonQuinn
  28. People fight harder for power than they do for freedom despite freedom is power. – Daniel S Stallings
  29. There is no break in the wholeness of time. – Ursula K Le Guin
  30. The airport bookstore did not sell books, only bestsellers, which Sita Dulip cannot read without risking a severe systemic reaction. – Ursula K Le Guin
  31. I was with you at the beginning of your journey. It is right that I should follow you to its end. – Ursula K Le Guin
  32. Nobody who says, -˜I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero. – Ursula K Le Guin
  33. Would you give up the craft of your hands, and the passion of your heart, and the hunger of your mind, to buy safety? – Ursula K Le Guin
  34. Fish and visitors stink after three days. – Ursula K Le Guin
  35. To be an atheist is to maintain God. His existence or his non-existence, it amounts to much the same, on the plane of proof. – Ursula K Le Guin
  36. Was he leaving home, or going home? – Ursula K Le Guin
  37. A psychopathy on Anarres was rational behavior on Urras. – Ursula K Le Guin
  38. Other people’s stories may become part of your own, the foundation of it, the ground it goes on. – Ursula K Le Guin
  39. It takes a while to spoil a world, but it can be done. – Ursula K Le Guin
  40. His eyes saved him. What they insisted on seeing and reporting to him took him out of the autism of terror. – Ursula K Le Guin

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