"After a Christmas comes a Lent."

--

John Ray

“For someone whoâ€™s made it clear that her life is superior to every other studentâ€™s at this school, you sure make it a habit of pursuing every facet of our boring, worthless lives.”
“My mother is a great hunter - she usually shoots our Thanksgiving turkey.”
“The first time that I appeared on stage, it scared me to death. I really didn't know what all the yelling was about. I didn't realize that my body was moving. It's a natural thing to me. So to the manager backstage I said, 'What'd I do? What'd I do?' And he said "Whatever it is, go back and do it again."”
“Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.”
“I would not be young again, if you offered me the world. But then I'm prejudiced.' 'You talk,' I said, 'as if you were ninety-nine.' 'For a woman I very nearly am,' she said. 'I'm thirty five.”
“Night breeds its own sort of anticipation.”
“Service rendered as a gift or love-offering to Life: work that is engaged in, not for self or for profit, but as an act of love and service, these bring the doer a harvest of blessings. . . . When we serve and when we give, we open ourselves to receive life's richest blessings, its greatest prizes, and its most enduring lessons.”
“People are pulled towards the best in themselves, and spotlighting the right is a much stronger approach than nagging.”

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