"Nothing in life is ritual."

-- William P. Young

#Life Is Quotes #Ritual Quotes

“And so I write the way I myself would like the book to be â€“ if I were a child. I write for the child within me.”
“Spring is strictly sentimental, self-regarding; but I burn more careless in the autumn bonfire.”
“If there's a heaven upon the earth, a fellow knows it when He's been away from home a week, and then gets back again.”

Source : Will Carleton (2001). “Farm Ballads”, p.72, Applewood Books
“The gut-check message is do we have the right balance in our culture? Or are we in a position where hero worship and winning at all costs has subordinated our core values?”
“The central paradox of motherhood is that while our children become the absolute center of our lives, they must also push us backout in the world.... But motherhood that can narrow our lives can also broaden them. It can make us focus intensely on the moment and invest heavily in the future.”
“Every day is conquerable by its hours, and every hour by its minutes.”
“Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive?”
“The grand destroyer of the world, and the greatest threat ... is represented by U.S. imperialism.”

Source : "Chavez appears with Castro in TV broadcast" by The Associated Press, www.nbcnews.com. August 22, 2005.

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