Enemies often appear as angels...I hope you can tell the difference - Alia Atreides

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it. - Irulan Corrino

How little the universe knows about the nature of real cruelty. - Paul Atreides

I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. - Bene Gesserit Litany against fear

To know the future is to be trapped by it...
But knowing there's a trap is the
first step in evading it... the first step along...
...the Golden Path."
- Leto Atredies II

There is no good or bad, just perspective and opinion. - Squall

Of course, can we all continue to succeed all the time? No one knows that. But when we have to ask ourselves that, we don't just sit there and say "poor guy." That's just rude. Saying "poor guy" to people who are fighting hard isn't just showing compassion. It can be said that people get weak to the point where they don't have any more strength left, and they fall. For this reason, I think, we don't lick each others' wounds, and no matter what is going on, we all must walk forward. - Gackt

"..but I never thought you'd trade your soul to the fates / never thought you'd leave me alone" - X Japan, Tears

What do you despise? By this are you truly known. - Irulan Corrino

To be neutral is to be indifferent, you would do well to dissaccosiate yourself, with those who have proven they are not. - Alia Atreides

Deciet, after all, is a legitimate tool of statecraft. - Irulan Corrino

Only a fool covets power without appreciating its delicate uses or fearing it's inherent perils. The world of Shaddam the Fourth remains only in crumbling history books. We hate the empire that defeated it, but have no idea what we'd like in it's place. - Farad'n Corrino

You must learn each and every muscle as if it were a single string on a baliset. When you learn how to play them individually, you'll know how to play them together. - Jessica Atreides

Recognizing the essential instablity of our universe one must learn to make it ones own creation. It is the Bene Gesserit way. - Wensicia Corrino

Remember... it's one thing to gain control of your perceptions, quite another to gain control of your desires. - Jessica Atreides

All humans make mistakes, and all leaders, are but human. - Leto Ateides II

" If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is tempermental, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them. If sovereign and subject are in accord, put division between them. Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected." - Sun TZU

No man steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man. - Heraclitus

"...the art in Tae Kwon Do rested in the fact that it taught, not answers, but a way in which to explore oneself, so as to discover the correct questions. I practiced movement, and learned the meaning of direction." - Richard Chun

"When you love each other and are together, you will say "I like you" to the most trivial things. The shape of "like" will change. However, the underlying prerequisite is always love. I think that is the best way." - Gackt

"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it." - Lee Holz

"Oftentimes people come up to me and ask, "Bruce, are you really that good?" I say, "Well, if I tell you I'm good, probably you will say I'm boasting, but if I tell you I'm no good, you'll know I'm lying." I have the absolute confidence not to be number two, but then I have enough sense also to realize that there can be no number one." - Bruce Lee, Striking Thoughts

"Good and bad or pleasure and pain exist but for the other. Instead of opposites, they are complementaries, and [each] is a function each of the other. First of all, if I have not felt pain how can I distinguish pleasure, or vice versa? Looking at the sky I can distinguish a smaller star because of the big stars, and, if there were no black sky at all, there will be no stars. It is not a matter to struggle between the good and the bad, but to flow like waves on the water." - Bruce Lee, Striking Thoughts

"There once was a time I was sure of the bond, where my hands and my tongue, and my thoughts were enough, we are the same but our lives move along, and the third one between replaces what once was love." - Vienna Teng, Between

"If you are afraid of dying, it shows you have a life worth keeping." - Nicholas Garrigan in The Last King of Scottland

Memory never recaptures reality. Memory reconstructs. All reconstructions change the original, becoming external frames of reference that inevitably fall short. - Mentant Handbook; Heretics of Dune

Concealed behind strong barriers the heart becomes ice. - Darwi Odrade; Heretics of Dune

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