"Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance?"

--

Lewis Carroll

“My despair is less despair than boredom and loneliness.”

Source : Anthony Swofford (2008). “Jarhead: A Solder's Story of Modern War”, p.75, Simon and Schuster
“The battle for self-discipline may leave you a bit bruised and battered but always a better person.”
“Entrust your dreams and goals to people who will cheer you on and inspire you, who will tell you what you need to hear rather than what you want to hear so you can move forward and fast track.”
“It is not enough to have ideals. We must translate them into action. We must clear our own little corner of creation.”
“I love having time to prepare my lines and more time off.”
“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.”
“But methings wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it”

Source : 1675 The Country Wife, act 1, sc.1.
“Illness isolates; the isolated become invisible; the invisible become forgotten. But the snail....the snail kept my spirit from evaporating.”

Source : Elisabeth Tova Bailey (2010). “The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating”, p.132, Algonquin Books

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