"Where the wave of moonlight glosses The dim gray sands with light, Far off by furthest Rosses We foot it all the night, Weaving olden dances, Mingling hands and mingling glances Till the moon has taken flight; To and fro we leap And chase the frothy bubbles, While the world is full of troubles And is anxious in its sleep. . . ."

-- William Butler Yeats

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“Christian teaching about sex is not a set of isolated prohibitions; it is an integral part of what the Bible has to say about living in such a way that our lives communicate the character of God.”
“So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.”
“I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously.”
“I never wanted to do away with my intensity because I felt it was a gift that helped put fuel in my engine, giving me exceptional drive and energy.”
“One time. In 1965. August, for about an hour, I was both fine AND dandy at the same time. But nobody asked me how I was.”
“Paper Matches My aunts washed dishes while the uncles squirted each other on the lawn with garden hoses. Why are we in here, I said, and they are out there? Thatâ€™s the way it is, said Aunt Hetty, the shriveled-up one. I have the rages that small animals have, being small, being animal. Written on me was a message, â€œAt Your Service,â€ like a book of paper matches. One by one we were taken out and struck. We come bearing supper, our heads on fire.”

Source : Paulette Jiles (1988). “Blackwater”, Alfred a Knopf Inc
“I would love to tell you I've found the secret to eternal youth. I go to the gym and avoid too many chips. I love to eat, hate to work out, but if you can't count all your ribs from a distance you're considered obese.”
“You can't go feeding your hate on the past, it's not natural.”

Source : Bryce Courtenay (2011). “The Power of One”, p.142, ReadHowYouWant.com

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