"We must be what we are, or we become our enemies."

-- Guy Gavriel Kay

“If you donâ€™t define yourself for yourself then you will be crushed into other's fantasies of you and eaten alive”
“If U.S. Grant had been leading a team of baseball players, they'd have second guessed him all the way to the doorknob of the Appomattox Courthouse.”
“One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call.”
“what is life worth if one has nothing to give away? This lack, it seems to me, must be the sharpest pang of poverty.”

Source : Mabel Osgood Wright (1901). “The garden of a commuter's wife”
“I did the thing with bonds, which was about 30 million dollars, and didn't get none of the money on them.”
“Language is inherently not concerned with logic. As an expression of the psychological activities of humankind, it simply follows a linear process as it seeks actualisation. Moreover, it does not obey the objective concepts of time and space that belong to the physical world. When the discussion of time and space is imported into linguistic art from scientific aims and research methods, that linguistic art is entirely reduced to trifling pseudo-philosophical issues.”
“Love changes us and helps us move forward in life. It often helps us become the people we've always wanted to be and move away from the people we were. Love transforms us in the best of ways, allowing us only to look back on a memory of our former self.”
“It's cool when your husband starts to sing some old Merle Haggard song and I can pop in with a harmony and it doesn't sound too bad.”

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