"When the suicide arrived at the sky, the people there asked him: "Why?" He replied: "Because no one admired me."

-- Stephen Crane

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“When we have no room for the Word of God in our lives we have no room for success.”

Source : Phil Pringle “Faith”, Faris Digital Solutions
“Nothing ever becomes real till experienced â€“ even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it”
“after all the work of the philosophers on his soul and the doctors on his body, what can we really say we know about a man? That he is, when all is said and done, just a passage for liquids and solids, a pipe of flesh.”
“I sing the body electric.”
“Was love then like a bag of assorted sweets passed around from which one might choose more than once? Some might sting the tongue, some invoke night perfume. Some had centers as bitter as gall, some blended honey and poison, some were quickly swallowed. And among the common bull's-eyes and peppermints a few rare ones; one or two with deadly needles at the heart, another that brought clam and gentle pleasure. Were his fingers closing on that one?”
“We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place. We stay there even though we go away and there are things in us we can find again only by going back there. We travel to ourselves when we go to a place. We have covered a stretch of our life no matter how brief it may have been but by traveling to ourselves we must confront our own loneliness. And isnâ€™t it so that everything we do is done out of fear of our loneliness? Isnâ€™t that why we renounce all the things we will regret at the end of our life?”
“Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.”
“A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.”

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