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“I think if you stop bad habits, and you stop long enough, you develop good habits.”
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“Conservatives, who have presumed that the key to preventing AIDS is abstinence-only education, and liberals, who have focused on distribution of condoms, should both note that the intervention that has tested most cost-effective in Africa is neither... Secular bleeding hearts and religious bleeding hearts will have to forge a common cause.”
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“Staying, we all know, is not the norm in our mobile culture. A great deal of money is spent each day to create desires in each of us that can never be fulfilled. I suspect that much of our restlessness is a return on this investment.”
Source : Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove (2010). “The Wisdom of Stability: Rooting Faith in a Mobile Culture”, p.11, Paraclete Press
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“Today my son and I went for a stroll and saw the sea lions and watched the sunset and played ball in the park with our dog.”
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“I wish I were a candle in the darkness.”
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“Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds.”
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“If you don't have to drag yourself off the field exhausted after 90 minutes, you can't claim to have done your best.”
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“Secret Instructions for Reaching Xanadu: Go eastward from the Bewildered-Dragon Lake Until you see the Monastery of the West Tower straight and high above your head. Then take Those charms which, as I told you, in the breast Of your most inner robe you have hidden, and follow Their clear instruction.”
Source : Arthur Davison Ficke (1938). “Selected Poems: With a Preface on the Nature of Poetry”
