"I donâ€™t envision a long life for myself. Like, I think my life will run out before my work does, yâ€™know? Iâ€™ve designed it that way."

-- Townes Van Zandt

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“Shame greatly hurts or greatly helps mankind.”
“Now is the time... if you want to make a difference in the world, now is the time. Don't be fooled into thinking you should wait until you are older or wiser or more secure because it doesn't work that way. The wisdom will come. The security will come. But first you must begin.”
“Can you not see the numerous designs made by God as signs, similitudes, or analogies of resurrection? He has placed them in every era, the alteration of day and night, even in the coming and going of clouds.”

Source : Said Nursi (2005). “The Words: The Reconstruction of Islamic Belief and Thought”, p.97, Tughra Books
“The next thing I would mention, and warn you against, is profaneness. This you know is forbidden by God.”

Source : Jupiter Hammon, Oscar Wegelin (1970). “America's First Negro Poet: The Complete Works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”
“Women and girls have been my passion for my whole life.”

Source : "Kathy Calvin | President/CEO of United Nations Foundation". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.
“However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.”

Source : James Schuyler (2004). “Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler, 1951-1991”
“Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine.”
“Looking back now I realise that the worst things that happened to me were the best things in disguise - I just didnâ€™t know how to read the signs.”

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