"Human life is God's outer church. Its needs and urgencies are priests and pastors."

-- Henry Ward Beecher

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“When I need my wife or when I need companionship or someone to talk to, I need it, like, now. So my wife will have to give up whatever she's doing at that moment to tend to my needs. And in the same way, I would tend to hers. That's not such an easy thing to do.”
“Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.”
“O Trade, O Trade! Would thou wert dead!The time needs heart - 'tis tired of head.”

Source : Sidney Lanier (1999). “Poems of Sidney Lanier”, p.60, University of Georgia Press
“When will you have a little pity for every soft thing that walks through the world, yourself included.”
“You can't improve sound by having only silence. The problem is to use each at the proper time.”
“I believe there are techniques of the human mind whereby, in its dark deep, problems are examined, rejected or accepted. Such activities sometimes concern facets a man does not know he has. How often one goes to sleep troubled and full of pain, not knowing what causes the travail, and in the morning a whole new direction and a clearness is there, maybe the results of the black reasoning. And again there are mornings when ecstasy bubbles in the blood, and the stomach and chest are tight and electric with joy, and nothing in the thoughts to justify it or cause it.”
“Blame no one. Expect nothing. Do something.”
“I wanna change the game in way where I'm not knocking nobody out of the way, not claiming to be the best at this or that, but just doing wonders with the gift I've been given.”

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