"There are as many stories to be told as there are people to tell them about; only the mean-spirited would consider there to be a competition at all."

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Charles de Lint

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“One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.”
“The actual initiations open up any dense areas in the physical body. The Pleiadian start to break up where the individual is holding on to a physical illness or a particular emotional experience. They always address the human being.”
“If you feel like you're in control of everything, and then things aren't going well, you feel like you're failing.”
“The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle to see the weaklings bruised, exhausted, fluttering back to earth.”

Source : Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.217
“Pleasures bring effeminacy, and effeminacy foreruns ruin; such conquests, without blood or sweat, sufficiently do revenge themselves upon their intemperate conquerors.”
“Well, no athlete respects a big, fat coach who's going to stand there and rest the watch on his stomach.”
“When I'm doing a one-on-one with somebody, I have to speak in a language that that person can understand, using a vocabulary that they instantly get, and I always have to feel my way around to figure that out. It's a lot of fun, and it's also really challenging - challenging in a different way from performing.”
“I was fascinated that one could have such perceptual changes, and also that they went with a certain feeling of significance, an almost numinous feeling. I'm strongly atheist by disposition, but nonetheless when this happened, I couldn't help thinking, 'That must be what the hand of God is like.'”

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