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muster QUOTES

1 " So you know how to ride a horse and muster and...stuff.”
He laughed. “Yes. I know how to do stuff.” He squeezed her ass again and muscles deep and low responded. “Country boys know how to do all kinds of stuff. "

― Amy Andrews , Playing With Forever (Sydney Smoke Rugby, #4)

2 " There's a long road of suffering ahead of you. But don't lose courage. You've already escaped the gravest danger: selection. So now, muster your strength, and don't lose heart. We shall all see the day of liberation. Have faith in life. Above all else, have faith. Drive out despair, and you will keep death away from yourselves. Hell is not for eternity. And now, a prayer - or rather, a piece of advice: let there be comradeship among you. We are all brothers, and we are all suffering the same fate. The same smoke floats over all our heads. Help one another. It is the only way to survive. "

― Elie Wiesel , Night (The Night Trilogy, #1)

3 " In 1963, when I assigned the name " quark" to the fundamental constituents of the nucleon, I had the sound first, without the spelling, which could have been " kwork." Then, in one of my occasional perusals of Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce, I came across the word " quark" in the phrase " Three quarks for Muster Mark." Since " quark" (meaning, for one thing, the cry of a gull) was clearly intended to rhyme with " Mark," as well as " bark" and other such words, I had to find an excuse to pronounce it as " kwork." But the book represents the dreams of a publican named Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker. Words in the text are typically drawn from several sources at once, like the " portmanteau words" in Through the Looking Glass. From time to time, phrases occur in the book that are partially determined by calls for drinks at the bar. I argued, therefore, that perhaps one of the multiple sources of the cry " Three quarks for Muster Mark" might be " Three quarts for Mister Mark," in which case the pronunciation " kwork" would not be totally unjustified. In any case, the number three fitted perfectly the way quarks occur in nature. "

4 " One day, you muster the courage and let go of the fear. In a brief moment of insanity, you give wings to the stories you had wanted to tell; some you didn't even know were in you. In that instant, something about you changes. You are born again.

That is not to say the fear and worry and second-guessing go away. They are there. But you learn to cope with them. You learn that they don't control you at all times. In those fleeting moments of freedom, you have the power. You know you are not perfect. You realize no one was born perfect. No one. Rome wasn’t built in a day either.
A weird thing happens when you get a glimpse of that side of you. A child-like zeal possesses you. It is addictive. You discover your voice. You matter. Maybe not to the world, yet. You matter to yourself. You are worthy. You are alive. You can be. "

― K.J. Kilton

5 " One day, you muster the courage and let go of the fear. In a brief moment of insanity, you give wings to the stories you had wanted to tell; some you didn't even know were in you. In that instant, something about you changes. You are born again. "

― K.J. Kilton

6 " If your heart has been broken nine times, muster the courage to love again for the tenth. "

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7 " Why did you do this?" He was shaking. " Just tell me why." I tried to muster up some of the righteous indignation that I'd felt on Friday night as I said, " You knocked over my gravestone!" But even to my ears the words sounded tinny and pathetic.Dan's face was pale. " It was just a gravestone, Chelsea. And it was a mistake. I told you that already, and I meant it. I've never lied to you. My God, can't you tell the difference between a gravestone and a person you love? Can't you tel which one matters?" But if I had to point to the real problem in my life, it's that I've never known the difference between a gravestone and a person I love. I have never known which is which until it's too late. " All's fair in love and war," I reminded him, aiming for Tawny's tone. But my voice came out sounding just like me." Oh, yeah? And which is this?" he asked. " Love or war? "

8 " Actually, I am a failed anorexic. I have anorexic thinking, but I can't seem to muster the behavoir "

― Carrie Fisher , Postcards from the Edge

9 " It is senseless to blame others or your environment for your miseries. Change begins from the moment you muster the courage to act. When you change, the environment will change. The power to change the world is found nowhere but within our own life. "

― Daisaku Ikeda

10 " Don't confuse one leader's bluster for muster or another leader's meekness for weakness. "

― Orrin Woodward

11 " We can stage our own act on the planet-build our cities on its plains, dam its rivers, plant its topsoils-but our meaningful activity scarcely covers the terrain. We do not use the songbirds, for instance. We do not eat many of them; we cannot befriend them; we cannot persuade them to eat more mosquitoes or plant fewer weed seeds. We can only witness them-whoever they are. If we were not here, they would be songbirds falling in the forest. If we were not here, material events like the passage of seasons would lack even the meager meanings we are able to muster for them. The show would play to an empty house, as do all those falling stars which fall in the daytime. That is why I take walks: to keep an eye on things. "

― Annie Dillard

12 " Plunging into the depths of hell, re-opening the gates to wounds and emotions that we have long tried to keep sealed and locked within, we discover that that the devil is not the Herculean ruler of darkness that we had imagined, but only a vulnerable and devastated child. With honesty and without judgment, we must muster the courage to meet this innocent child with whom we have come to label as the devil. "

13 " When you muster the courage to processes reality as it is instead of sweeping feelings or emotions under the rug, you become stronger. "

14 " Want to help others? Be yourself. You’ll inspire others to muster the courage to be themselves as well. "

― Kamand Kojouri

15 " May we muster courage at the crossroads, courage for the conflicts, courage to say, " no," courage to say, " yes," for courage counts. "

16 " When will you tell him?' 'When I muster the courage or when I'm left with no choice - whichever comes first. "

― Renée Ahdieh , The Wrath and the Dawn (The Wrath and the Dawn, #1)

17 " Part ways with your perception of reality, allow the unknown and your curiosity muster into a visual you've never allowed yourself to see. "

18 " We worship numberless gods or idols, but we all need to be the grandest possible versions of ourselves, we need to walk across the face of the earth with as much grace and beauty as we can muster before we’re wrapped in our winding sheets, and returned. "

― Michael Cunningham , The Snow Queen

19 " And so it must be with the energy you muster for your own work. Get out there and convert the unconverted. Save them all from the charlatans and the nearly-men. "

20 " Words are great, but even I can admit they have certain short-comings. No word can ever give justice to a smile from a man who never smiled or to an old woman who gives up her seat on the bus to a soldier who lost his leg. And I’m still convinced there’s no word out there for the feeling you get the first time you ever hit home plate or bury your first dog or muster up enough courage to tell a girl you love her. "

― Laura Miller , By Way of Accident