"When your effort results in the desired effect, then you have worked."

“The fact that a knight is temporarily on the edge of the board is of no great significance.”

“A habit of devout fellowship with God is the spring of all our life, and the strength of it.”

Source : Henry Edward Manning, Aeterna Press (2016). “Henry Edward Manning Collection [2 Books]”, p.394, Aeterna Press

“Users of clichés frequently have more sinister intentions beyond laziness and conventional thinking. Relabelling events often entails subtle changes of meaning. War produces many euphemisms, downplaying or giving verbal respectability to savagery and slaughter.”

“I was blessed with certain gifts and talents and God gave them to me to be the best person I can be and to have a positive impact on other people.”

“And here he is again, yet things feel like they'll never be as easy between us as they once were.”

“What determines each person's state of happiness or unhappiness is not the event itself, but what the event means to that person.”

Source : Chris Prentiss (2006). “Zen and the Art of Happiness”, p.17, BookBaby

“Lover? I don't know. I don't know if she loves me. I don't know if I love her. All I can say is, she's the one I think about. All the time. She's the voice I want to hear. She's the face I hope to see.”

“So I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip outside my house.' He said 'I'm not stopping you.'”