"To lovers of the truth, nothing can be put before God and hope in Him."

-- Saint Basil

“I believe I have lots of time. I have to believe that, that it won't come back, and that that's why I'm in good hands. But I also do live my life by putting nothing off.”
“This business of really knowing people, deep down, including your own self, it is not something you can learn in school or from a book. It takes your whole being to do itâ€”your eyes and your ears, your brain and your heart. Maybe your heart most of all. â€”Bobby Goodspeed”

Source : James Howe (2011). “The Misfits”, p.124, Simon and Schuster
“When I was growing up, I wasn't taught how to feel or communicate feelings.”
“A young man rarely gets a better vision of himself than that which is reflected from a true woman's eyes; for God himself sits behind them.”
“By the time you get a job, you know how to behave in a meeting or how to write a simple memo.”
“For only as we ourselves, as adults, actually move and have our being in the state of love, can we be appropriate models and guides for our children. What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.”
“I was afraid that something would happen to me. But at the same time I was lucky, because some writers were tortured and jailed. I always used metaphors that could be interpreted in more than one way. Maybe this style protected me.”
“Leave my soul alone, leave my soul alone”

Source : Dannie Abse, Jeremy Robson (1973). “Poetry Dimension”

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