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Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it’s what you are expected to give–which is everything.

Vittorio Alfieri

When love’s well-timed ’tis not a fault of love; The strong, the brave, the virtuous, and the wise, Sink in the soft captivity together.

Joseph Addison — English Essayist and Poet (1672-1719)

Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died. — Steven Wright  U.S. Comedian

There are few things that are so unpardonably neglected in our country as poker… Why, I have known clergymen, good men, kindhearted, liberal, sincere, and all that, who did not know the meaning of a ‘flush’. It is enough to make one ashamed of one’s species. — Mark Twain U.S Author, Humorist, Satirist, Lecturer and writer

When holy and devout religious men are at their beads, ’tis much to draw them thence, so sweet is zealous contemplation.

Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (Buckingham at III, vii)

William Shakespeare  English Poet and Playwright

The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.

Benjamin Mays –  American Author  and Political Activist (1894 — 1984)

You can outdistance that which is running after you but not what is running inside you.

Rwandan Proverb

“May the wind always be on your back and the sun upon your face and may the winds of destiny carry you aloft to dance with the stars.”
Johnny Depp American Actor (1963–)

The morning was as dark and cold as city snow could make it–a dingy whirl at the window; a smoky gust through the fire-place; a shadow black as a bear’s cave under the table. Nothing in all the cavernous room, loomed really warm or familiar except a glass of stale water, and a vapid, half-eaten grape-fruit.

Author: Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
Source: Molly Make-Believe [1910] (ch. 1)

Playing poker for a living gives you backbone.  You cannot survive without that intangible quality we call heart.

— Bobby Baldwin, 1978 WSOP winner (2001)