"Life is a thing to be lived, not spent; to be faced, not ordered. Life is not a game of chess, the victory to the most knowing; it is a game of cards, one's hand by skill to be made the best of."

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Source : Jerome K. Jerome (2012). “The Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.135, The Floating Press

Jerome K. Jerome

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“The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert... I don't live inside buildings because buildings are dead places where nothing grows, where water doesn't flow, and where life stops. I don't want to live in a dead place. People say that I don't live in a real world, but it's modern Americans who live in a fake world, because they have stepped outside the natural circle of life.”
“I take mentoring very seriously and as a result I hardly get any work done during the school year.”
“If I get it all down on paper, it's no longer inside of me, threatening the life it belongs to.”

Source : Song: Breathe, Album: Shine, 2008
“Jesus Christ does not teach us a spirituality 'of closed eyes,' but one of 'alertness,' one which entails an absolute duty to take notice of the needs of others and of situations involving those whom the Gospel tells us are our neighbors....The gaze of Jesus, what 'his eyes' teach us, leads to human closeness, solidarity, giving time, sharing our gifts and even our material goods.”
“This re-appearance of the doctrine of freewill serves to support that of the pretension of the natural man to be not irremediably fallen, for this is what such doctrine tends to. All who have never been deeply convicted of sin, all persons in whom this conviction is based on gross external sins, believe more or less in freewill”

Source : John Nelson Darby (1881). “Letters by J.N.D., 1849-1875; extracts tr. from the French”
“I am here because I am the first judge in this country to say, in 1990, that the war on drugs was racist. It still is and that hasn't changed”
“After all, things are what they are. A message is a message, plates are plates, men are men, and life is life.”
“I don't have any stigma attached to my body. When I'm in my own private space, I have very little on.”

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