DeBarra Mayo (1953) American martial artist
Bikini Body Fitness by DeBarra Mayo, Juicy, Sensuous, Tasty...and Healthy http://www.ujena.com/book.php?h=Ujena+News, December 22, 2006
Source: The Bait Of Satan: Living Free from the Deadly Trap of Offense
DeBarra Mayo (1953) American martial artist
Bikini Body Fitness by DeBarra Mayo, Juicy, Sensuous, Tasty...and Healthy http://www.ujena.com/book.php?h=Ujena+News, December 22, 2006
E. Lockhart book The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
Source: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
Ataol Behramoğlu (1942) Turkish writer
"I've Learned Some Things" (1977)
Variant translations:
There is one thing I learned from what I lived:
When you live, you must live big, like being one with the rivers, the sky, and the whole universe
Because what we call lifetime is a gift presented to life
And life is a gift presented to you.
Translated as "There Is One Thing I Learned From What I Lived" by Sãleyman Fatih Akgãl at TC Turkish Poetry Pages
I've Learned Some Things (2008)
“Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
September 20, 1773
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1785)
“The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.”
Frank Herbert book Children of Dune
Source: Children of Dune
“The gift of self cannot be given to us. It is an incomparable gift that has already been given.”
Gerry Spence (1929) American lawyer
Source: Give Me Liberty! (1998), Ch. 9 : Empowering the Self, p. 118
Context: The gift of self cannot be given to us. It is an incomparable gift that has already been given. We have possessed it from the beginning.
“Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.”
Walter Pater (1839–1894) essayist, art and literature critic, fiction writer
Conclusion <br class="br"> The Renaissance http://www.authorama.com/renaissance-1.html (1873) <br class="br">Context: Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end. A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to to be seen in them by the finest senses? How shall we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy. To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
John Buchan book The Power-House
Source: The Power-House (1916), Ch. 3 "Tells of a Midsummer Night"
Context: "It would scarcely be destruction," he replied gently. "Let us call it iconoclasm, the swallowing of formulas, which has always had its full retinue of idealists. And you do not want a Napoleon. All that is needed is direction, which could be given by men of far lower gifts than a Bonaparte. In a word, you want a Power-House, and then the age of miracles will begin."