"The things you used to own, now they own you."

-- Chuck Palahniuk

“I'd have to say that Muay Thai is something special. It's really demanding and it's becoming popular all around the world.”
“Nobody can do everything, but everybody can do something.”

Source : Gil Scott-Heron (2011). “Now And Then”, p.69, Canongate Books
“It was as if personality itself had a 'face'. This non-physical face of personality seemed to be the real key to personality change. It remained scarred, distorted, 'ugly' or inferior the person himself acted out this role in his behaviour regardless of the changes in physical appearance. If this 'face of personality' could be reconstructed, if old emotional scars could be removed, then the person himself changed, even without facial plastic surgery.”
“What we call the wisdom that comes with age is usually simple caution.”

Source : Jessica Zafra (1997). “Chicken pox for the soul”
“I go to the river from time to time to ponder over the crazy days in my life. Watch the river flow, ease my mind and soul where I go.”
“To survive, you had to steer your course midstream, where the water was deepest and ran fastest, that you had to paddle fast, as fast as you could to stay there to stay still in the rushing current because the price of failure was to be washed up on the beach or dashed to pieces on the wharves.”

Source : Melanie McGrath (2009). “Hopping”, p.23, HarperCollins UK
“The Bible declares that on the sixth day God created man. Right then and there, God should have demanded a damage deposit.”
“I pray to the architect that designed me. I'm grateful.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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