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61 " My head aches, my eyes burn, my arms and legs have given up, and my face in the mirror has a grayish cast. The bed, across the room, calls in its unmistakable lover's croon, Come to me, come, only I can make you truly happy, oh, how happy I'll make you, don't resist, remember how you moan with pleasure the instant we touch.....Laura Acosta "
62 " There exists an oasis where inspiration bursts forth like black gold from the fertile loam and every odd bellbird chirps a melody worth remembering. There’s no bloody map or nautical chart that can deliver you there, but you know the instant you’ve arrived because you never ever want to depart. "
63 " Life is'nt about getting everything you want the instant you want it.Some thing are worth waiting for. "
― Mira Lyn Kelly , Waking Up Married (Waking Up, #1)
64 " Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work a life-purpose. ... Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what real happiness is. ... Even in the meanest sorts of labor the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work. "
65 " It is with enterprises as with striking fire we do not meet with success except with reiterated efforts and often at the instant when we despaired of success. "
66 " If you could once make up your mind never to undertake more work ... than you can carry on calmly quietly without hurry or flurry ... and if the instant you feel yourself growing nervous and ... out of breath you would stop and take breath you would find this simple common-sense rule doing for you what no prayers or tears could ever accomplish. "
67 " Florence Farr once said to me " If we could say to ourselves with sincerity 'this passing moment is as good as any I shall ever know ' we could die upon the instant and be united with God." "
68 " If you could once make up your mind never to undertake more work ... than you can carry on calmly quietly without hurry or flurry ... and if the instant you feel yourself growing nervous and ... out of breath you would stop and take a breath you would find this simple common-sense rule doing for you what no prayers or tears could ever accomplish. "
69 " The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler. "
― Franz Kafka
70 " In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. "
71 " There are three things that people pick up on the instant they walk into your home on Thanksgiving. They will be able to feel the human energy. They'll smell the food. And they will see, instantly, the table. "