"... the more have been your trials, look for a more perfect reward from your just Judge. Do not take your present troubles ill. Do not lose hope. Yet a little while and your Helper will come to you and will not tarry (cf. Hab. 2:3)."

-- Saint Basil

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“It's not just a boring exercise in pushing oil paint around a canvas. It's a way of opening a threshold to an exciting new world of vision.”
“It's more mental in the NFL than it was in high school. In high school you just line up and close the gap. In the NFL you have to do the right things so the team can win.”
“I might dream, but I am no dreamer.”

Source : "Capitol Punishment: The Hard Truth About Washington Corruption From America's Most Notorious Lobbyist". Book by Jack Abramoff, www.politico.com. November 3, 2011.
“Music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential.”
“Content isn't king. If I sent you to a desert island and gave you the choice of taking your friends or your movies, you'd choose your friends -- if you chose the movies, we'd call you a sociopath. Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.”
“The 2.5 billion adults [around the world] without access to financial services are disproportionately women and young people. There are at least 44 million unbanked or underbanked people in the United States, so clearly financial inclusion is needed in all markets.”
“Unfortunately complaining is one thing Eeyores are not afraid to do. They grudgingly carry their thimbles to the Fountain of Life, then mumble and grumble that they weren't given enough.”
“We read novels because we need stories; we crave them; we canâ€™t live without telling them and hearing them. Stories are how we make sense of our lives and of the world. When weâ€™re distressed and go to therapy, our therapistâ€™s job is to help us tell our story. Life doesnâ€™t come with plots; itâ€™s messy and chaotic; life is one damn, inexplicable thing after another. And we canâ€™t have that. We insist on meaning. And so we tell stories so that our lives make sense.”

Source : John Dufresne (2010). “Is Life Like This?: A Guide to Writing Your First Novel in Six Months”, p.277, W. W. Norton & Company

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