"However it may be for others, for us of the Citizen Army there is but one ideal - an Ireland ruled, and owned, by Irish men and women, sovereign and independent from the centre to the sea, and flying its own flag outward over all the oceans."

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Source : James Connolly (1988). “Collected Works: Labour and Easter Week”

James Connolly

#Ocean Quotes #Independent Quotes #Army Quotes

“Its not that I'm in love with myself, I'm just trying to pick up everyone else's slack.”
“We expect him to take up a lot of space in his gangly experiments with life, and we teach him, through task, work, game, activity, and experience how to use that space. Above all, we give him mentoring and supervision that respects and teaches his gifts, his visions, even his shadowy inner demons”

Source : Michael Gurian (2006). “The Wonder of Boys”, p.168, Penguin
“Jesus, Willard says, â€œdoes not call us to do what he did, but to be as he was, permeated with love. Then the doing of what he did and said becomes the natural expression of who we are in him.”
“There is only one true thing: instantly paint what you see. When you've got it, you've got it. When you haven't, you begin again. All the rest is humbug.”
“Pressed up against him, I can feel the thud of his heart against mine, his ribcase expanding and contracting rapidly against my chest, the warm whisper of his breath tickling the side of my neck, the brush of his leg against my thigh. Resting my arms on his shoulders, I pull back a little to get a look at his face. But he isn't smiling any more.”
“A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.”
“Jesus came not to condemn, but to reclaim.”
“I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.”

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