"Love is not breathlessness; It is not excitement; It is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being â€œin loveâ€, which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident."

-- Louis de Bernieres

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“Party domination and State leadership are concepts incompatible with one another.”
“Versatility is one of the few human traits which are universally intolerable. You may be good at Greek and good at painting and be popular. You may be good at Greek and good at sport, and be wildly popular. But try all three and youâ€™re a mountebank. Nothing arouses suspicion quicker than genuine, all-round proficiency.”
“If I belittle those whom I am called to serve, talk of their weak points in contrast perhaps with what I think of as my strong points; if I adopt a superior attitude, forgetting "Who made thee to differ? and what hast thou that thou hast not received?" then I know nothing of Calvary love.”
“Physical exercise makes you more graceful. After some gymnasitics you walk as if the whole street is yours.”
“This won't look so good in my obituary," Schaffer said dolefully. There was a perceptible edge of strain under the lightly-spoken words."Gave his life for his country in a ladies' lavatory in Upper Bavaria.”
“Some may find them merely diverting melodies. Others may find them incitements to Red revolution. And who will say if either or both is wrong? Not I.”
“Share your presence with others, no boundaries, completely, openly, lovingly. Love is what makes us alive, that is why we feel so alive when we love. Service is being available to love. Life is the combustion of love. That we love ourselves here, that is the true magnificence in the mountains of being.”

Source : "The Vast Expanse" by Alex Grey, August 22, 1994.
“Excellence is the result of habitual integrity.”

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