"As your lover describes you, so you are."

-- Jeanette Winterson

“Tracing the progress of mankind in the ascending path of civilization, and moral and intellectual culture, our fathers found that the divine ordinance of government, in every stage of the ascent, was adjustable on principles of common reason to the actual condition of a people, and always had for its objects, in the benevolent councils of the divine wisdom, the happiness, the expansion, the security, the elevation of society, and the redemption of man. They sought in vain for any title of authority of man over man, except of superior capacity and higher morality.”
“The earth is one tiny part of a vast energy net work.”

Source : Scott Cunningham (2011). “Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Crystal, Gem & Metal Magic”, p.14, Llewellyn Worldwide
“The personal deportment of Captain Perry, throughout the day, was worthy of all praise. He did not quit his own vessel when she became useless, to retire from the battle, but to gain it; an end that was fully obtained, and an effort which resulted in triumph.”

Source : "History of the Navy of the United States of America". Book by James Fenimore Cooper, 1856.
“For most entertainers, there is a single experience, one defining moment, when confidence replaces the self-doubt that most of us wrestle with.”

Source : Charley Pride, Jim Henderson (1994). “Pride: the Charley Pride story”, William Morrow & Co
“Makes sense to me. Sometimes starting over is exactly what a person needs. And I think it's admirable. A lot of people don't have the courage it takes to do something like that.”
“I am fully aware that everybody has a right to succeed, and success should be with ethics.”
“I can't tell you how irritating it is to be an atheist in a haunted house.”
“Self-confidence without self-reliance is as useless as a cooking recipe without food. Self-confidence sees the possibilities of the individual; self-reliance realizes them. Self-confidence sees the angel in the unhewn block of marble; self-reliance carves it out for oneself.”

Source : William George Jordan (2007). “The Majesty of Calmness”, p.21, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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