‒ „Cenisz tylko to, czego nie masz”. Czyje to słowa? – Twoje. Niektórzy mówią: czego mieć nie możesz, a inni: czego mieć nie powinieneś. A ja mówię: naprawdę możesz docenić tylko to, czego zawsze będziesz pragnął.

You only covet what you do not have. Some say what you cannot covet. Others say „what you should not have. I say, “You can truly covet only what you will always hunger for.”

‒ Zbyt się różnisz od ludzi, by ich zrozumieć. ‒ Jesteś zbyt podobny do ludzi, by zobaczyć ich wyraźnie.

“You are too different from humans ever to understand them.” “You are to similar to humans for you ever to be able to see them clearly.”

Who was more cursed, the one who died unknowing until the very moment of his death, or the one who watched the dustruction as it approached, step by step, , for days and weeks and years?

Tak funkcjonuje świat. Ktoś powiedział mi kiedyś, że jedyny nauczyciel wart twojej uwagi to twój nieprzyjaciel. Someone once told me that the only teacher who's worth anything to you is your enemy.

Will God answer your prayer? Of course. God answers all prayers. I mean, will he say yes. Ah, That's the part I'm never sure about. Tell me later if he did.

Valentine tłumaczyła coś o opowieściach, które są prawdziwe i innych, które są wierne. Valentine explained something about some stories being true and others being truthful. [...]

[..] not for Congress to decide from far away where they know nothing and understand less.

– Humans insist on making strangers of us ” it's built into their genetic material. But we can be friends, – This word is too strong. Say that we are fellow„citizens. At least as long as our interests coincide. – As long as the stars shine, our interests will coincide. – Maybe not so long. Maybe as long as human beings are stronger and more numerous than we are. – That will do for now.

She wanted to believe the idea because even though it was impossible, at least it was conceivable, it could be imagined and therefore it might just be real.

[...] I do not grieve because my feet have been cut off. I grieve because a precious jewel is dubbed a mere stone, and a man of integrity is called a deceiver. This is why I weep.

Głupim jest człowiek, który sądzi, że prawdziwa opowieść ma tylko jedno znaczenie. It's a foolish man who thinks a true story can mean only one thing.

In a clear dreamof last year come from a thousand mile scloudy citywinding streamsice on the ponds for a while

I gazed on my friend This was done to you by men and women whose only desire was to enslave you; they have succeeded so well that you are proud of your slavery. [...] A slave who rejoices is a slave indeed.

We pretend to be whatever we must in order to survive. Are you alive , when you can do nothing you desire unless you have the consent of this girl?For them the terrible lie has to become the self-story, the tale that you must believe if you are to remain yourself.

Any animal is willing to kill the Other, but the higher beings include more and more living things within their self-story, until at last there is no Other. Until the needs of others are more important than any private desires. The highest beings of all are the ones who are willing pay any personal cost for the good of those who need them.

Maybe we're fools, for thinking we know things. Maybe humans are the only ones who can deal with the fact that nothing can ever be known at all. People only really believe in what they've seen before.

From all wise men, O Lord, protect us.

No doubt it was all an elaborate pretense at normality, but in Valentine's experience, normality was always a pretense, people acting out what they thought were their expected roles.

Happiness can depend as easily on useless things as on useful ones.

Isn't it possible for one person to love another without trying to own each other?

[...] Not even that. Because the priests say the God created our souls, and that just puts us under control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make. God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal ” there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause.So ” as I recall, the official philosophical answer is that free will doesn't exist. Only the illusion of free will, because the causes of our behavior are so complex that we can't trace them back.You just don't want to admit that there's a chance that you might live, because then you'd start to fear death. But Wang„mu said nothing, because this was one of the first lessons she learned from Master Han.

When you have wisdom that another person knows that she needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn't yet know that he needs your wisdom, you keep it for yourself. Food only looks good to a hungry man.

No matter how smart or strong you are, there's always somebody smarter or stronger, and when you run into soebody who's stronger and smarter than anybody, you think, This is a God. Could she take credit for something she did by accident?

People should only be blamed or praised for what they meant to do.

How can I tell the good people from the bad, if the bad people all have some way of convincing themselves that they're trying to do good even though theyre doing something terrible? And the good people can believe that they're actually very bad even though they're doing something good? Maybe you can only do good if you think you're bad, and if you think you're good then you can only do bad.

Somebody who wants to teach you how to know everything that they know and everything that they do ” what he was really describing was parents, not gods. He wasn't telling her what the gods were, he was telling her what goodness was. To want other people to grow. To want other people to have all the good things that you have. And to spare them the bad things if you can. Even sometimes they were wrong, they were good. I can judge them by their purpose after all. Everybody calls their purpose good, but my parents' purposes really were good, because they meant all their acts toward me to help me grow wiser and stronger and better.

I can only judge by what I understand.

Lauro, you dont make bricks. The laborers in your factory make bricks. Brickmakers make bricks. You make brickmakers.

Let me know your thoughts, and I'll decide for myself whats useful and what isn't.

We must do all we can without destroying our ability to keep doing it.

– ” aiua ” Sanskrit for life.

When have you ever seen someone who had no doubts who was also correct about anything?

Withholding a decision is a decision.

– Will you tell him? – Not until he ask.

I doubt he can, hes not as smart as he thinks he is.Yes, he is. And if you doubt it, you are not so smart as you think you are.

Im going to break a lot of eggs and cause an amazing amount of trouble and turn this whole Hundred Words thing are over teakettle, and I'm inviting you to help me.