"When you are racing in an able-bodied competition, you're all equal and you go out there and try your best, and that's what counts."

-- Natalie du Toit

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“I'm not somebody that keeps the thing in her heart. I can get very angry for five minutes, but then it's finished. Once I've yelled, it's over.”
“Our holiday food splurge was a small crate of tangerines, which we found ridiculously thrilling after an eight-month abstinence from citrus.... Lily hugged each one to her chest before undressing it as gently as a doll. Watching her do that as she sat cross-legged on the floor one morning in pink pajamas, with bliss lighting her cheeks, I thought: Lucky is the world, to receive this grateful child. Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.”
“I mean, I have moments of huge frustration because of my inability to express myself linguistically as clearly as I would like to.”
“If humans died in a healthy culture, they would not lock out the earth in metal coffins and carve their names on stone monuments, but would instead place the naked body in the earth and plant a tree above the silent heart.”

Source : William Irwin Thompson (1978). “Darkness and Scattered Light: Four Talks on the Future”, Anchor Books
“The present age, for all its cosmopolitan hustle, is curiously suburban in spirit.”
“If your ruler is just, then praise God; but if he is unjust, pray to God to rid you of him.”
“We the Jainists of India say every day in our prayer, I worship all perfected souls, I worship all spiritual masters, I worship all spiritual instructors, I worship all holy men and women in the world.”
“Just getting to first base seems to be a problem for you two," Cam couldn't resist saying.”

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