"If you plan your work, you will not find yourself standing on the corner wondering where to go next."

-- John Henry Patterson

#Preparation Quotes #Finding Yourself Quotes #Next Quotes

“Words are the only jewels I possess Words are the only clothes I wear Words are only the food that sustain my life Words are the only wealth I distribute among people.”
“All the doors that I had to close. All the things I knew but I didn't know. Thank God for all I missed. 'Cause it led me here to this.”

Source : Song: This, Album: Charleston, SC 1966, 2010
“The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me. I don't want to have anything to do with such a God. But while I cannot conceive of such a God, I do recognize the existence of a great universal power - a power which we cannot even begin to comprehend and might as well not attempt to. It may be a conscious mind, or it may not. I don't know. As a scientist I should like to know, but as a man, I am not so vitally concerned.”
“I would eat healthy at times and pig out at times. But I never had to go on a strict diet plan.”
“Clean, tasty, real foods do not come processed in boxes or bags; they come from the earth, the sea, the field, or the farm.”
“Even if I turned myself in, it wouldn't change anything. It wouldn't make me one of them. I knew that when I got my powers, but really I knew it before then. I learned it as a child on my first day of school, on the warm rainy streets of Bangkok, and in college. If you're different you always know it, and you can't fix it even if you want to. What do you do when you find out your heart is the wrong kind? You take what you're given, and be the hero you can be. Hero to your own cold, inverted heart.”
“Every act is an expression of one's self.”
“There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.”

Source : James Branch Cabell (2013). “The Essential James Branch Cabell Collection”, eBookIt.com

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