"Ole Golly: The time has come, the walrus said... Harriet M. Welsch: To talk of many things... Ole Golly: Of shoes and ships and ceiling wax... Harriet M. Welsch: Of cabbages and kings... Ole Golly: And why the sea is boiling hot... Harriet M. Welsch: And whether pigs have wings!"

-- Louise Fitzhugh

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“Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.”
“O, my Jesus, I understand well that, just as illness is measured with a thermometer and a high fever tells us of the seriousness of the illness; so also, in the spiritual life, suffering is the thermometer which measures the love of God in a soul.”
“We can see the child moving rather serenely in the uterus. The child senses aggression in its sanctuary. We see the child's mouth wide open in a silent scream.”
“Emerging at the other end, we will not be the same as we were; we will have become more humble, more connected to the natural world, fitter, leaner, more skilled and, ultimately, wiser.”
“Peace is not achievable as a direct object of purposeful behaviour.”
“There is a moon shaped rictus in the streetlamp's globe where a stone has gone and from this aperture there drifts down through the constant helix of aspiring insects a faint and steady rain of the same forms burnt and lifeless.”
“What we preach is what we get. We are farmers sowing seed. If we are unhappy with the harvest weâ€™re reaping, we should sow different seed. If we want different results, we preach different messages.”

Source : Phil Pringle (2013). “You The Leader”, p.199, Faris Digital Solutions
“Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys.”

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