"Why did we do that to Pluto? We had it good with Pluto."

-- Dave Eggers

“Life is not being sure what will come next or how it will come. We guess at everything we do. We take leap after leap in the dark and that's the joy of living and the beauty of faith. When we grow tired, when we sit still, that's when we begin to die.... One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”
“The most excellent of those who perform good deeds are those who most often remember God in all situations.”
“I'm a fighter through and through. I don't fear any person and to go inside that ring with a feared mentality, why even go inside the ring?”
“The man who doesnâ€™t make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life.”
“My mother used to sit at the foot of my bed and she would share her dreams with me.”
“That man is formed for social life is an observation which, upon our first inquiry, presents itself immediately to our view, and our reason approves that wise and generous principle which actuated the first founders of civil government, an institution which hat its origin in the weakness of individuals, and hath for its end the strength and security of all; and so long as the means of effecting this important end are thoroughly known and religiously attended to government is one of the richest blessings to mankind, and ought to be held in the highest veneration”
“What about your mind, does it shine?”

Source : Song: Gone, Gone, Gone, Album: On And On
“They say that I am a poet I wonder what they would say if they saw me from the inside I bottle emotions and place them into the sea for others to unbottle on distant shores I am unsure as to whether they ever reach and for that matter as to whether I ever get my point across or my love”

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