| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: the bread of idleness.
PRO 31:28 Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband
also, and he praiseth her.
PRO 31:29 Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them
all.
PRO 31:30 Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that
feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.
PRO 31:31 Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works
praise her in the gates. ECC 1:1 The words of the Preacher, the son of
David, king in Jerusalem.
ECC 1:2 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all
King James Bible |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Young Forester by Zane Grey: you'll be left untied in the daytime. But if either of you attempts to get
away it means a leg shot off. Do you get that?"
"All right, Stockton; that's pretty square of you, considering," replied
Dick. "You're a decent sort of chap to be mixed up with a thief like Buell.
I'm sorry."
Stockton turned away at this rather abruptly. Then Bill appeared on the
wall above, and began to throw down firewood. Bud returned from the canyon,
where he had driven the horses. Greaser sat on a stone puffing a cigarette.
It was the first time I had taken a good look at him. He was smaller than I
had fancied; his feet and hands and features resembled those of a woman,
but his eyes were live coals of black fire. In the daylight I was not in
The Young Forester |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott: too clearly that the wretched inmate was abandoning himself at
such moments to paroxysms of uncontrolled agony. The old man
thought that the mroning, for which he longed, would never have
dawned; but time, whose course rolls on with equal current,
however it may seem more rapid or more slow to mortal
apprehension, brought the dawn at last, and spread a ruddy light
on the broad verge of the glistening ocean. It was early in
November, and the weather was serene for the season of the year.
But an easterly wind had prevailed during the night, and the
advancing tide rolled nearer than usual to the foot of the crags
on which the castle was founded.
The Bride of Lammermoor |
