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"Her smile grew bitter as desert brine. 'The gods may forgive Ista all day long. But if Ista does not forgive Ista, the gods may go hang themselves."
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"Life flows at ease whenever a person ceases complaining about the past, worrying about the future, lives in the now without resisting pain, and accepts the moral sublimity of living in a state of grace."
"How much is your sincerity, that much will be 'Our' divine grace (krupa). This is the measure of grace."
"Through the grace of a thief, one can become a thief and through the grace of a Gnani [the enlightened one], one can become a Gnani [the enlightened one]."
"With grace you can realise your goals."
"The greatest patient is to wait for God to act."
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"And this was your friend?' Cordelia raised her eyebrows. 'Seems to me the only difference between your friends and your enemies is how long the stand around chatting before they shoot you."
"Don't let fear swallow all your happiness. Don't forget to take joy.' Dag gulped. Both of their grounds were nearly closed. It was Arkady's voice alone that hinted how hard-bought this bit of wisdom might've been, yet the words had been nearly toneless."
"Well, it is a particular sin to permit grief for what is gone to poison the praise for what blessings remain to us."
"Barrayar is bred in my bones. I cannot shake it, no matter how far I travel. This struggle, God knows, has no honor in it. But exile, for no other motive than ease-that would be to give up all hope of honor. The last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it."
"The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business."
"He was shaken by an unwelcome insight. Lives did not add as integers. They added as infinities."
"Hunting hawks did not belong in cages, no matter how much a man coveted their grace, no matter how golden the bars. They were far more beautiful soaring free. Heartbreakingly beautiful."
"Lord X was a tyrant, not a revolutionary. He wanted to take over the system, not change it."
"In mysticism, knowledge cannot be separated from a certain way of life which becomes its living manifestation. To acquire mystical knowledge means to undergo a transformation; one could even say that the knowledge is the transformation. Scientific knowledge, on the other hand, can often stay abstract and theoretical. Thus most of today's physicists do not seem to realize the philosophical, cultural and spiritual implications of their theories."
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