"To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not,
You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy.
In order to arrive at what you do not know
You must go by a way which is the way of ignorance.
In order to possess what you do not possess
You must go by the way of dispossession.
In order to arrive at what you are not
You must go through the way in which you are not.
And what you do not know is the only thing you know
And what you own is what you do not own
And where you are is where you are not."
— T.S. Eliot

"The 3rd world war will not be fought with missiles and bomb, neither with Biological weapons. it will be fought with the bare fists of the masses of the dispossessed and driven by their rage and search for justice ...""
— Dom Helder Camara - loosely recalled from one of his speeches 1973

"If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home."
— Ursula K. LeGuin (The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia)

"Outside the locked room is the landscape of time, in which the spirit may, with luck and courage, construct the fragile, makeshift, improbable roads and cities of fidelity: a landscape inhabitable by human beings."
— Ursula K. LeGuin (The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia)

"Love doesn't just sit there like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new."
— Ursula K. LeGuin (The Lathe of Heaven)

"I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours."
— Jerome K. Jerome

"If there hadn't been a sixth day, man would not exist; copper would always be copper; and lead just lead. It's true that everything has its Personal Legend, but one day that Personal Legend will be realized. So each thing has to transform itself into something better, and to acquire a new Personal Legend, until, someday, the Soul of the World becomes one thing only."
— Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)