"You can't possibly conduct a proper affair without a lot of deliberating, scheming, speculating, and conniving. It's a delicate balance where the excitement must equal the guilt and sex must be as bright as the future you gamble."

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Source : John Dufresne (2008). “Love Warps the Mind a Little: A Novel”, p.6, W. W. Norton & Company

John Dufresne

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“Power isn't control at all-power is strength, and giving that strength to others. A leader isn't someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to others that they may have the strength to stand on their own.”

Source : Beth Revis (2011). “Across the Universe”, p.250, Penguin
“Restlessness is my nemesis/ It's hard to just chill and sit still”
“You’re not looking at Morris Cerullo; you’re looking at God; you’re looking at Jesus.”
“You get a real person down there and his talking will take care of itself.”
“Live from the heart of yourself”
“O Sisters, if we would only comprehend the fact that while the Eucharistic Species remain within us, Jesus is there and working in us inseparably with the Father and the Holy Spirit and therefore the whole Holy Trinity is there.”
“Ultimately I wanted to be a pioneer swimmer, a distant descendant of Scott, Amundsen and Hillary, except that I would be an explorer of the water.”

Source : "Achieving The Impossible". Book by Lewis Gordon Pugh, 2010.
“To die with honor when one can no longer live with honor.”

Source : John Luther Long (2014). “Madame Butterfly”, p.64, John Luther Long

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