"My life feels like a book left out on the porch, and the wind blows the pages faster and faster, turning always toward a new chapter faster than I can stop to read it."

-- Nancy E. Turner

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“The proper work of man, the grand drift of human life, is to follow reason, that noble spark kindled in us from heaven.”
“Art thou in misery, brother? Then I pray Be comforted. Thy grief shall pass away. Art thou elated? Ah, be not too gay; Temper thy joy: this, too, shall pass away. Art thou in danger? Still let reason sway, And cling to hope: this, too, shall pass away. Tempted art thou? In all thine anguish lay One truth to heart: this, too, shall pass away. Do rays of loftier glory round thee play? Kinglike art thou? This, too, shall pass away! Whate'er thou art, wher'er thy footsteps stray, Heed these wise words: This, too, shall pass away.”
“I like those guys who brought dub into live band context too, Peaking Lights. Joe Gibbs & The Professionals!”
“I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.”
“It is an excellent sign, that after the cares and labors of the day, you can return to your pious exercises and meditations with undiminished attention.”
“Life is a vast, unknowable movement of wholeness with no one separate from it and nothing outside of it.”

Source : Toni Packer (2007). “The Light of Discovery”, p.14, Shambhala Publications
“I have actually known a case where a Woman has exterminated her whole household, and half an hour afterwards, when her rage was over and the fragments swept away, has asked what has become of her husband and her children.”

Source : Edwin A. Abbott (2015). “Flatland”, p.15, Xist Publishing
“If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer.”

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