You have to be careful who you let define your good.
Lois Mcmaster Bujold Quotations
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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.
A good friend of my son's is a son to me.
Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.
But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?
I am who I choose to be. I always have been what I chose?though not always what I pleased.
If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us
An honor is not diminished for being shared.
Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.
Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.
My home is not a place, it is people.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
Our children change us?whether they live or not.
It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be.
You try to give away what you want yourself.
If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.
Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.
His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.
...tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune.
The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.
I am who I choose to be. I always have been what I chosethough not always what I pleased.
When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow isthe higher achievement.
Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
Our children change uswhether they live or not.
A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible. We're not giving up. We're waiting for a better opportunity to win.
If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way.
What you are is a question only you can answer.
If you can't do what you want, do what you can.
The dead cannot cry out for justice it is a duty of the living to do so for them.
The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.
A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.