“Patience is a virtue, but there comes a moment when you must stop being patient and take the day by the throat and shake it. If it fights back; fine. I'd rather end up bloody at the end of the day, then unhurt with no progress made, no knowledge gained. I'd rather have a no, then nothing. I'd forgotten that about myself.” IfsMadeEndsMomentsFightingKnowledgeFantasyVirtueProgressFinePatiencePatientForgottenShakesThe End Of The DayThroatBloodyDayShakingKnowledge GainedPatience Is A Virtue Author:Laurell K. Hamilton
“You are merely the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency - your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end and remain purely as a means.” IfsKnowsLifeGivingMeanDoeEndsLightKnowledgeLearningDegreesCapacityManagementLensesTransparencyBeam Author:Dag Hammarskjold