"Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery."

-- Albert Camus

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“You can’t win unless you try to win, but you can lose by trying not to lose.”

Source : Jack Campbell (2009). “The Lost Fleet: Relentless”, p.30, Penguin
“I'm at the stage of my career when it's not only about winning and developing players, it's about having fun. That's a void in your life right now, but it's something you're going to have here.”
“Puddleglum,' they've said, 'You're altogether too full of bobance and bounce and high spirits. You've got to learn that life isn't all fricasseed frogs and ell pie. You want something to sober you down a bit. We're only saying it for your own good, Puddleglum.' That's what they say. Now a job like this --a journey up north just as winter's beginning looking for a prince that probably isn't there, by way of ruined city nobody's ever seen-- will be just the thing. If that doesn't steady a chap, I don't know what will.”
“Human life is God's outer church. Its needs and urgencies are priests and pastors.”
“You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.”
“Death is so preoccupied with life, that is has no time for anything else.”

Source : "Itch of Wisdom". Book by Mikhail Turovsky, 1986.
“My wife Ann and I had been digging during the day, transplanting lilies from the front of this abandoned farmhouse back down the road to where we live. We finished. She was tired and laid in the grass. I took a picture. The house is now gone. The walnut trees have been bulldozed and burned. I saw this picture the other day for the first time in years and realized how photographing life within a hundred yards of my front porch had helped me focus on everything I cared about.”

Source : "10 Photographers Share ‘An Image That Changed Everything’ And The Stories Behind Them" by Priscilla Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2017.
“When the Word is stored in the heart, the individual finds it a wonderful power in preserving him from outbreaking sin.”

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