“I don’t pretend to know everything; I just only speak on matters I know I’ll win.”

“Hope?” he says. “There is always hope, John. New developments have yet to present themselves. Not all the information is in. No. Don’t give up hope just yet. It’s the last thing to go. When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope.”

“Some lean back. But those who lean forward are poised to cross the finish-line, first!”

“A professor once told me: Sir, you are insane! In which I replied: Sir, I am just eccentrically very normal !”

“They asked me: why you are not patient?, which I answered: I am patient, however I have a war against time!”

“To always win, you always need to be hungry!”

“They asked me: why you are not patient?, which I answered: I am very patient, however I just in war against time!”

“He asked me: why you are not patient?; I answered: I am very patient, however I just in war against time!”

“You have to stay out of the game. It’s deadly and no one ever wins. Everyone is a loser. Even seeming wins are short-lived and have the taste of bitterness mixed in with the satisfaction of personal gain. The ego is exclusive by nature. While the spirit seeks to include, the ego is unashamedly manipulative in its culling of people. The intention of self-aggrandisement is barely even covered over. The soul does not see people in terms of what it can gain. It seeks to share. It seeks to create by extension of its own and others’ true nature. The ego is extremely changeable. It has no stability. Constantly guarding against attack and looking out for its own advantage, its perceptions and thus feelings towards others are ever-shifting. This creates unhappiness. The more we veer away from our true nature, the more unhappy we feel. When we align with our better self, we feel happy again. And so the process continues until the spaces between happiness are not as long and arduous. The presence or absence of personal peace is our barometer. It will guide us even if we are not sure of the way.”

“Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!”

“I’d seen glimpses of a different me. It was a different me because in those increments of time I thought I actually became a winner.The truth, however, is painful.It was a truth that told me with a scratching internal brutality that I was me, and that winning wan’t natural for me. It had to be fought for, in the echoes and trodden footprints of my mind. In a way, I had to scavenge for moments of alrightness.”

“Law is made by the winner to preserve victory over the loser.”

“If I reveal myself without worrying about how others will respond, then some will care, though others may not. But who can love me, if no one knows me? I must risk it, or live alone.”

“Faithfulness imparts God’s reason for all circumstances. No matter what the world says, losing is no longer an option.”