"The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world."

-- Henry Ward Beecher

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“Nobody's perfect but I definitely strive.”

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“Now, writing every day, and being paid for it and encouraged to do it, it was as if, in the midst of the clich?d dark and stormy night, I found the magical inn, its windows golden lit, and Summer was due to start tomorrow. I can only work at one thing well. Deprive me of that, and my "back-up plan," even now, will be the empty, stormy, darkened heath -- where, incidentally, even unpublished, somehow I'll still be writing.”
“I'm a free spirit and that definitely comes from my upbringing, so it's definitely shaped me as an artist.”
“The songs I had are withered Or vanished clean. Yet there are bright tracks Where I have been.”

Source : 1922 'The Songs I Had'.
“Illness begins with "I", Wellness begins with "we”
“In the Kingdom of Heaven, there is no grandeur to be won, inasmuch as there all is an established hierarchy, the unknown is revealed, existence is infinite, there is no possibility of sacrifice, all is rest and joy. For this reason, bowed down by suffering and duties, beautiful in the midst of his misery, capable of loving in the face of afflictions and trials, man finds his greatness, his fullest measure, only in The Kingdom of This World.”

Source : Alejo Carpentier (1990). “The Kingdom of this World”, Andre Deutsch
“Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one other person I could really talk to, who could really understand me, who'd be kind to me. That's what people really want, if they're telling the truth.”

Source : Doris May Lessing (1981). “The Golden Notebook”, Bantam
“Happy Hour: a depressing comment on the rest of the day and a victory for the most limited Dionysian view of human nature.”

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