| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Elixir of Life by Honore de Balzac: become their scourge . . ."
In this manner he kept them tethered to his pillow, blotting out
the memory of whole months of fretfulness and unkindness in one
short hour when he chose to display for them the ever-new
treasures of his pinchbeck tenderness and charm of manner--a
system of paternity that yielded him an infinitely better return
than his own father's indulgence had formerly gained. At length
his bodily infirmities reached a point when the task of laying
him in bed became as difficult as the navigation of a felucca in
the perils of an intricate channel. Then came the day of his
death; and this brilliant sceptic, whose mental faculties alone
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Two Noble Kinsmen by William Shakespeare: WOMAN.
Why, gentle Madam?
EMILIA.
It is the very Embleme of a Maide.
For when the west wind courts her gently,
How modestly she blowes, and paints the Sun,
With her chaste blushes! When the North comes neere her,
Rude and impatient, then, like Chastity,
Shee lockes her beauties in her bud againe,
And leaves him to base briers.
WOMAN.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: butter he made was worth the having, I can tell you. He wished
for a grand palace of white marble, and then he wished for all
sorts of things to fill it--the finest that could be had. Then he
wished for servants in clothes of gold and silver, and then he
wished for fine horses and gilded coaches. Then he wished for
gardens and orchards and lawns and flower-plats and fountains,
and all kinds and sorts of things, until the sweat ran down his
face from hard thinking and wishing. And as he thought and
wished, all the things he thought and wished for grew up like
soap-bubbles from nothing at all.
Then, when day began to break, he wished himself with his fine
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