| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King Lear by William Shakespeare: harder. Chill be plain with you.
Osw. Out, dunghill!
They fight.
Edg. Chill pick your teeth, zir. Come! No matter vor your
foins.
[Oswald falls.]
Osw. Slave, thou hast slain me. Villain, take my purse.
If ever thou wilt thrive, bury my body,
And give the letters which thou find'st about me
To Edmund Earl of Gloucester. Seek him out
Upon the British party. O, untimely death! Death!
King Lear |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: that opposed his will was as insurmountable as it had been
physically impossible for him to climb the bluff.
Slowly he fell back, crouched low, and then lay flat. The grim
and ghastly dignity that had been his a moment before fell away
from him. He lay there stripped of his last shred of
self-respect. He wondered was he afraid; had he, the last of
the Duanes--had he come to feel fear? No! Never in all his wild
life had he so longed to go out and meet men face to face. It
was not fear that held him back. He hated this hiding, this
eternal vigilance, this hopeless life. The damnable paradox of
the situation was that if he went out to meet these men there
The Lone Star Ranger |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from United States Declaration of Independence: that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,
that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men,
deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends,
it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute
new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing
its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect
their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments
long established should not be changed for light and transient causes;
and accordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed
United States Declaration of Independence |
