"Yes, he is here in this open field, in sunlight, among the few young trees set out to modify the bare facts-- he's here, but only because we are here. When we go, he goes with us to be your hands that never do violence, your eyes that wonder, your lives that daily praise life by living it, by laughter. He is never alone here, never cold in the field of graves."

-- Denise Levertov

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“If it's still in your mind, it is still in your heart.”
“Need A Six In Pressure Situation? Call MS DHONI.”
“For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.”
“Paper Matches My aunts washed dishes while the uncles squirted each other on the lawn with garden hoses. Why are we in here, I said, and they are out there? Thatâ€™s the way it is, said Aunt Hetty, the shriveled-up one. I have the rages that small animals have, being small, being animal. Written on me was a message, â€œAt Your Service,â€ like a book of paper matches. One by one we were taken out and struck. We come bearing supper, our heads on fire.”

Source : Paulette Jiles (1988). “Blackwater”, Alfred a Knopf Inc
“JaciÃ¡n!" She yells again, and then she says something in Spanish. A moment later he comes down the hallway. "I'm going to tell Grandfather you said that," he says. "What do you want?”
“People are going to be most creative and productive when they're doing something they're really interested in.”
“Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth.”

Source : John Wesley (1960). “The Letters of the Rev. John Wesley ...”
“I was recruited by the former Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. And I never forgot his key message to me when he was encouraging me to come in. He said: â€œYou must hold fast to your values. If you have to compromise your values in order to join us, you lose your value to us.â€”

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