"Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal Nature lifts her changeful form: Mounts from her funeral pyre on wings of flame, And soars and shines, another and the same."

-- Erasmus Darwin

#Flames Quotes #Wings Quotes #Shining Quotes

“The body is an amazing machine... If you eat the right things your body will perform incredibly well!”
“In our small chess community in Marylebone it would be mock modesty on my part to deny that I have built up for myself a considerable name without ever actually having won a single game. Even the best players are sometimes beaten, and that is precisely what happens to me.”

Source : Stephen Potter (1962). “Three-upmanship: The theory & practice of gamesmanship: Some notes on lifemanship [and] One-upmanship”
“My parents never raised their hand or fired me. Their way of disciplining me was to tell me what is right or wrong.”
“They have accepted me as an individual, as a personality, as an entity. I belong! I am important! I am somebody!”
“One danger, when you're writing lots of quick, opinionated blog items about the latest developments, is that you never get around to stating fully, in one place, what you think about a particular topic.”
“Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.”
“I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.”
“I thought of you with your hair silver as snow all through that cold, slow journey from Sirle. I felt you troubled deep within me, and there was no other place in the world I would rather have been than in the cold night riding to you. When you opened your gates to me, I was home.”

Source : Patricia A. McKillip (2017). “The Forgotten Beasts of Eld”, p.73, Tachyon Publications

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