| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: with hostile intent within the clutches of his great
band of villains.
The great red giant soon returned to say that it was
Henry de Montfort, oldest son of the Earl of Leicester,
who had come under a flag of truce and would have
speech with the master of Torn.
"Admit them, Shandy," commanded Norman of Torn,
"I will speak with them here."
When the party, a few moments later, was ushered
into his presence it found itself facing a mailed knight
with drawn visor.
The Outlaw of Torn |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Poems by Bronte Sisters: Then call me soon to thee;
Or give me strength enough to bear
My load of misery.
MEMORY.
Brightly the sun of summer shone
Green fields and waving woods upon,
And soft winds wandered by;
Above, a sky of purest blue,
Around, bright flowers of loveliest hue,
Allured the gazer's eye.
But what were all these charms to me,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pierrette by Honore de Balzac: cruel apprenticeship to life. Neither of them complained of their
trials. They were not so much implacable as impracticable in their
dealings with others in misfortune. To them, virtue, honor, loyalty,
all human sentiments consisted solely in the payment of their bills.
Irritable and irritating, without feelings, and sordid in their
economy, the brother and sister bore a dreadful reputation among the
other merchants of the rue Saint-Denis. Had it not been for their
connection with Provins, where they went three or four times a year,
when they could close the shop for a day or two, they would have had
no clerks or young women. But old Rogron, their father, sent them all
the unfortunate young people of his neighborhood, whose parents wished
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