"Now is the month of Maying, When merry lads are playing. Fa la la... Each with his bonny lass, upon the greeny grass. Fa la la... The Spring clad all in gladness, Doth laugh at winter's sadness. Fa la la."

-- Thomas Morley

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“Anything can happen if you are willing to put in the work and remain open to the possibility. Dreams are realized by effort, determination, passion and staying connected to that sense of who you are.”

Source : Michael Jordan (2012). “Driven from Within”, p.81, Simon and Schuster
“Giftedness is your accelerator; wisdom is your brake.”
“The attitude of gratitude is yoga. Ingratitude is "unyoga," like "uncola." Where gratitude is, there is yoga. Where there is ingratitude, yoga is gone. That mind which does not live in gratitude is just like a junkyard. There are great cars there, but they don't work; they are useless, because they are junk. What are you without gratitude?”
“The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth.”

Source : "What's Right with Islam: A New Vision for Muslims and the West". Book by Feisal Abdul Rauf, www.nytimes.com. May 11, 2004.
“For men love what they cannot have, and hate what they cannot control.”
“The moon of a bright silver, which dazzles by its shining, illumines a world which surely is no longer ours; for it resembles in nothing what may be seen in other lands.”

Source : Pierre Loti (2005). “Egypt”, p.3, Cosimo, Inc.
“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept of the stretch.”

Source : Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1837). “The Tatler: With Notes and a General Index ; Complete in One Volume”, p.270
“I was told many times that my writing was either too Korean - or not Korean enough.”

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