Lois McMaster Bujold Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• All great human deeds both consume and transform their doers. Consider an athlete, a scientist, an artist, or an entrepreneur. In service of their goals, they lay down time, energy and many other choices and pleasures; in return, they become most truly themselves. A false destiny may be spotted by the fact that it consumes without transforming, without giving back the enlarged self.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Athlete, Destiny, Artist

  "Author's Afterword". "Cordelia's Honor". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1996.

• You try to give away what you want yourself.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Giving, Trying, Want

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1996). “Memory (Hardcover)”, p.47, Baen Books

• When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Love, Winning, Giving

  Lois McMaster Bujold (2000). “A Civil Campaign”, p.105, Baen Books

• Bleeding ulcers run in my family, we give them to each other.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Running, Giving, Bleeding

  Lois McMaster Bujold, Bujold (1997). “Young Miles”, Baen Books

• You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one. The family economy evades calculation in the gross planetary product. It's the only deal I know where, when you give more than you get, you aren't bankrupted - but rather, vastly enriched.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Children, Common Humanity, Hands

  "A Civil Campaign: A Comedy of Biology and Manners". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1999.

• Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.

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  Giving, Smirk, Speak

• I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Giving, Victory, Triumph

• People give themselves to you, in their talking, and in other ways, if you are quiet and patient and let them, and not in such a damned rush to give yourself to them you go bat-blind and deaf.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Talking, People, Giving

  Lois McMaster Bujold (2002). “Miles Errant”, p.463, Baen Books

• Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Children, Sorry, Maturity

  "A Civil Campaign". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1999.

• The gods give no gifts without hooks embedded.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Giving, Hook, Embedded

  "Paladin of Souls". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 2003.

• Real destiny takes everything-the last drop of blood, and strip out your veins to be sure-and gives it back doubled. Quadrupled. A thousand-fold! But you can't give halves. You have to give it all. I know. I swear. I've come back from the dead to speak the truth to you. Real destiny gives you a mountain of life, and puts you on top of it.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Real, Destiny, Blood

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