"Names and theoretical things don't occur to me. If they do, I'm not doing my real playing mode."

-- Lee Konitz

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“Everyone should consider his body as a priceless gift from one whom he loves above all, a marvelous work of art, of indescribable beauty, and mystery beyond human conception, and so delicate that a word, a breath, a look, nay, a thought may injure it.”
“The stars, they are as the sun. Each star. Every star. And those spheres- they are worlds, realms, each one different yet the same.”
“We are not known by our bank balances or who our parents are. It is ultimately we who have to prove ourselves. It is not important to own a particular brand of car. But we should be a brand in ourselves. Each of us is unique.”
“Those physical difficulties which you cannot account for, be very slow to arraign; for he that would be wiser than Nature would be wiser than God.”
“Dear God, please enlarge our hearts to love each other, to love our neighbor, to love our enemy as well as our friend.”
“This my goodness does to endow the souls of the just more fully with spiritual riches when for my love they are stripped of material goods because they have renounced the world and all its pleasures and even their own will. These are the ones who fatten their souls, enlarging them in the abyss of my charity. Then I become their spiritual provider. The Holy Spirit becomes their servant.”
“Nothing more excites to everything noble and generous, than virtuous love.”

Source : Henry HOME (Lord Kames.) (1775). “Introduction to the art of thinking. Third edition. Enlarged with additional maxims and illustrations. [By Henry Home, Lord Kames.]”, p.22
“Why will any man be so impertinently officious as to tell me all prospect of a future state is only fancy and delusion? Is there any merit in being the messenger of ill news. If it is a dream, let me enjoy it, since it makes me both the happier and better man.”

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