"People feel guilty enough at funerals without having more guilt heaped on. I would prefer a bighearted preacher giving my eulogy, someone inclined to widen heaven's doors. I don't want to leave folks wondering whether I made it."

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Source : Philip Gulley (2009). “For Everything a Season: Simple Musings on Living Well”, p.26, Harper Collins

Philip Gulley

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“Life is only as meaningful as you fool yourself into thinking it is,”

Source : "Fictional character: Samantha Borgens". "Stuck in Love", www.imdb.com. 2012.
“I would say my mind is always working - no matter where I am I continue to see opportunities all around me. My only sorrow is that I can't possibly explore them all!”

Source : Source: yourmcmurraymagazine.com
“In a world not made for women, criticism and ridicule follow us all the days of our lives. Usually they are indications that we are doing something right.”
“My inspiration is life. My family, my friends, travelling, books, music, love, food, fashion. What inspires you?”
“I think now that maybe true sweetness can only happen in limbo. I don't know why. Is it because we are so unsure, so tentative and waiting? Like it needs that much room, that much space to expand. The not knowing anything really, the hoping, the aching transience: This is not real, not really, and so we let it alone, let it unfold lightly. Those times that can fly.”

Source : Peter Heller (2012). “The Dog Stars”, p.216, Vintage
“And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.”
“No good man ever became suddenly rich.”
“I'm just basically spillin' out my emotions to the world. 'Cause rap is about emotion. And I want you to feel what I'm feelin', 'cause that's what it's all about.”

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