Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings
Paradise is for those who make paradise.
All knowledge is local, all truth is partial. No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge. Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole.
When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.
The hunger of a dragon is slow to wake, but hard to sate.
In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it's not poison; and we will all come to the end together, and even to the beginning: living, as we do, in the middle.