"Sleep is just a good idea. I bow to the god caffeine."

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Source : Jo-Ann Mapson (2010). “Solomon's Oak”, p.230, Bloomsbury Publishing

Jo-Ann Mapson

#Sleep Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Bows Quotes

“The only successful manifestation is one which brings about a change or growth in consciousness; that is, it has manifested God, or revealed him more fully as well as having manifested a form ..”
“Parenthood, like death, is an event for which it is nearly impossible to be prepared. It brings you into a new relationship with the fact of your own existence, a relationship in which one may be rendered helpless.”
“You are free to love without an agenda”
“I could see the road ahead of me. I was poor and I was going to stay poor. But I didn't particularly want money. I didn't know what I wanted. Yes, I did. I wanted someplace to hide out, someplace where one didn't have to do anything. The thought of being something didn't only appall me, it sickened me . . . To do things, to be part of family picnics, Christmas, the 4th of July, Labor Day, Mother's Day . . . was a man born just to endure those things and then die? I would rather be a dishwasher, return alone to a tiny room and drink myself to sleep.”
“Music was my friend when I was a teenager, and I would inhabit and take comfort in lyrics. That's how I want to write.”
“Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.”
“If they [animals] were really to get the equal consideration that I believe they should, we wouldn't have commercial animal production in this country.”
“God accomplishes His purposes heart to heart.”

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