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  1. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Dancing at the Edge of the

    I am offered the Grand Inquisitor's choice. Will you choose freedom without happiness, or happiness without freedom? The only answer one can make, I think, is: No.
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  2. Ursula K. Le Guin _ The Lathe of Heaven

    He never spoke with any bitterness at all, no matter how awful the things he said. Are there really people without resentment, without hate, she wondered. People who never go cross-grained to the universe? Who recognize evil, and resist evil, and yet are utterly unaffected by it? Of course there are. Countless, the living and the dead. Those who have returned in pure compassion to the wheel, those who follow the way that cannot be followed without knowing they follow it, the sharecropper's wife in Alabama and the lama in Tibet and the entomologist in Peru and the millworker in Odessa and the greengrocer in London and the goatherd in Nigeria and the old, old man sharpening a stick by a dry streambed somewhere in Australia, and all the others. There is not one of us who has not known them. There are enough of them, enough to keep us going. Perhaps.
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  3. E.M. Forster _ Howards End

    So never give in," continued the girl, and restated again and again the vague yet convincing plea that the Invisible lodges against the Visible. Her excitement grew as she tried to cut the rope that fastened Leonard to the earth. Woven of bitter experience, it resisted her. Presently the waitress entered and gave her a letter from Margaret. Another note, addressed to Leonard, was inside. They read them, listening to the murmurings of the river.
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  4. Howard Zinn _ A Power Governments Cannot

    Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can quietly become a power no government can suppress, a power than can transform the world."
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  5. Steven Pressfield _ The War of Art: Break Through

    Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance.
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  6. Steven Pressfield _ The War of Art: Break Through

    Its {Resistance} aim is to shove us away, distract us from doing our work.
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  7. Steven Pressfield _ The War of Art: Break Through

    Lat at nigh have you experienced a vision of the person you might become, the work you could accomplish, the realized being you were mean to be? Are you a writer who doesn't write, a painter who doesn't pain, an entrepreneur who never starts a venture? Then you know what Resistance is.
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  8. Steven Pressfield _ The War of Art: Break Through

    Resistance gets us to plunge into a project with an overambitious and unrealistic timetable for its completion.
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  9. Steven Pressfield _ The War of Art: Break Through

    We feed it {Resistance} with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.
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  10. Steven Pressfield _ The War of Art: Break Through

    Like a magnetized needle floating on a surface of oil, Resistance will unfailingly point to true North - meaning that calling or action it most wants to stop us from doing.We can use this. We can use it as a compass. We can navigate by Resistance, letting it guide us to that calling or action that we must follow before all others.
    book-quoteresistancecompassnavigate

  11. Steven Pressfield _ The War of Art: Break Through

    In other words, any act that rejects immediate gratification in favor of long-term grown, health, or integrity. Or, expressed another way, any act that derives from our high nature instead of our lower. Any of these will elicit Resistance.
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  12. Steven Pressfield _ The War of Art: Break Through

    To yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be.
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