| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield: ...
Walking down the wharf together she took his arm. He had her on his arm
again. And the difference it made to get into the cab after Janey--to
throw the red-and-yellow striped blanket round them both--to tell the
driver to hurry because neither of them had had any tea. No more going
without his tea or pouring out his own. She was back. He turned to her,
squeezed her hand, and said gently, teasingly, in the "special" voice he
had for her: "Glad to be home again, dearie?" She smiled; she didn't even
bother to answer, but gently she drew his hand away as they came to the
brighter streets.
"We've got the best room in the hotel," he said. "I wouldn't be put off
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: twice blessed in its employment; and buyer and seller should
alike have their twenty shillings worth of profit out of
every pound. Benjamin Franklin went through life an altered
man, because he once paid too dearly for a penny whistle. My
concern springs usually from a deeper source, to wit, from
having bought a whistle when I did not want one. I find I
regret this, or would regret it if I gave myself the time,
not only on personal but on moral and philanthropical
considerations. For, first, in a world where money is
wanting to buy books for eager students and food and medicine
for pining children, and where a large majority are starved
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: onslaught. The boar, bewildered by the uproar, will rise up and toss
the first hound that ventures to attack him in front. He will then run
and fall into the toils; or if not, then after him full cry.[23] Even
if the ground on which the toils environ him be sloping, he will
recover himself promptly;[24] but if level, he will at once plant
himself firm as a rock, as if deliberating with himself.[25] At that
conjuncture the hounds will press hard upon him, while their masters
had best keep a narrow eye upon the boar and let fly their javelins
and a pelt of stones, being planted in a ring behind him and a good
way off, until the instant when with a forward heave of his body he
stretches the net tight and strains the skirting-rope. Thereupon he
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