"Give beauty back, beauty, beauty, beauty, back to God, beauty's self and beauty's giver."

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Source : Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Selected Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins”, p.48, Courier Corporation

Gerard Manley Hopkins

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“Being alive is about playing to win. Being brain dead is when you play not to loose.”
“A mind is accustomed to mathematical deduction, when confronted with the faulty foundations of astrology, resists a long, long time, like an obstinate mule, until compelled by beating and curses to put its foot into that dirty puddle.”
“The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.”
“For me, running is a lifestyle and an art. I'm far more interested in the magic of it than the mechanics. It's that interest and exploration that make running fun for me. It's easy to become outcome-focused; for me the unfoldment of self is what is meaningful in running and outlasts any medals.”
“The great stories go to those who aren't afraid to live them”
“It's kind of an art, going out and performing. I'd like fans to remember me as a guy who would go out and entertain them, give them quality matches, and not just the same old garbage every week,”
“I am happy to know that my husband regards me as a woman and a person.”
“it was always insolent for a common man to take a chair in the presence of a lady - the word LADY, we may be sure, capitalized in her mind, and denoting not sex but rank.”

Source : Dorothy Canfield Fisher “Vermont Tradition: The Biography of an Outlook on Life”

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