“Here's a nice image for a life in balance,” she said. “You're juggling these four balls that you've named work, family, friends, spirit. Now, work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it bounces back. The other balls they're made of glass.”
“I've dropped a few of those glass balls in my day. Sometimes they chip, sometimes they shatter to pieces.”
“if you spin in a circle perhaps avoiding corners”
“If you’re going around in circles, maybe you’re cutting corners.”
“Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need.”
“waiting in hospitals is as close as we get to being in hell before our time,”
“up beside the car. Then he pulled out a Sig Sauer”
“I told the truth and shamed the devil.”
“He wanted an heir, a tiny piece of immortality.”
“I climbed out of my old Porsche in the staff”
“Words are important. Words shaper our perceptions. When they define, they can also distort. There is a far better way to describe this man whose face is the most human face of all. Jesus is beautiful.”
“When the only tongue you’re getting is from your cat… it’s time to get out more.”
“I avoided my own friends and acquaintances, yet the loneliness of my existence was insupportable.”
“Not the sun or summer alone, but every hour and season yields its tribute of delight.”
“That is one of the moral paradoxes mankind will wrestle with until the day he becomes truly civilized,” replied Piri. “Is it evil to use evil to combat evil? Is agreeing with that argument merely a simple justification for something none of us should really do?” “For now,” said Ezio, “there is not leisure to ponder such questions.”
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