“Born-again living seemed to me just a crutch which no longer facilitated healing and growth, but actually protracted immaturity.”
“If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking, and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.”
“It is only by making the past alive again for a person that a true growth in the present is facilitated. If the past is cut off, the future does not exist.”
“You should give up.''Why?''For one thing, you'll live longer.''Oh, you don't live longer. It just seems longer.”
“Today,’ said Lymond, ‘if you must know, I don’t like living at all. But that’s just immaturity boggling at the sad face of failure. Tomorrow I’ll be bright as a bedbug again.”
“I don't believe there is such a thing as a 'born' soccer player. Perhaps you are born with certain skills and talents, but quite frankly it seems impossible to me that one is actually born to be an ace soccer player”