"Time is what we have in this life, and how we use it determines what our life is."

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Source : Andy Couturier (2010). “A Different Kind of Luxury: Japanese Lessons in Simple Living and Inner Abundance”, p.222, Stone Bridge Press

Andy Couturier

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“The mere possession of a vision is not the same as living it, nor can we encourage others with it if we do not, ourselves, understand and follow its truths. The pattern of the Great Spirit is over us all, but if we follow our own spirits from within, our pattern becomes clearer. For centuries, others have sought their visions. They prepare themselves, so that if the Creator desires them to know their life's purpose, then a vision would be revealed. To be blessed with visions is not enough...we must live them!”
“If you can't beat them (Packers), You might as well join them”
“A work of art comes only from inside a human being.”
“After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.”

Source : V. S. Naipaul (2012). “A Bend in the River”, p.94, Pan Macmillan
“There is no policy too sensitive to question, and no subject so taboo that you cannot even mention it.”

Source : The Straits Times, January 17, 2000.
“Sci-fi films are the epic films of the day because we can no longer put 10,000 extras in the scene - but we can draw thousands of aliens with computers.”
“God our Lord would have us look to the Giver and love Him more than His gift, keeping Him always before our eyes, in our hearts, and in our thoughts.”
“The electric energy which motivates us is not within our bodies at all. It is a part of the universal supply which flows through us from the Universal Source with an intensity set by our desires and our will.”

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