| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Letters of Two Brides by Honore de Balzac: tremors and night watches by starlight on the balcony, this idolatrous
worship, this deification of woman--I knew it was not for me. You can
enlarge the borders of your brilliant life as you please; mine is
hemmed in to the boundaries of La Crampade.
And you reproach me for the jealous care which alone can nurse this
modest and fragile shoot into a wealth of lasting and mysterious
happiness! I believed myself to have found out how to adapt the charm
of a mistress to the position of a wife, and you have almost made me
blush for my device. Who shall say which of us is right, which is
wrong? Perhaps we are both right and both wrong. Perhaps this is the
heavy price which society exacts for our furbelows, our titles, and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Aesop's Fables by Aesop: Horses stampeding about, and in quite a panic all the Hares
scuttled off to a lake hard by, determined to drown themselves
rather than live in such a continual state of fear. But just as
they got near the bank of the lake, a troop of Frogs, frightened
in their turn by the approach of the Hares scuttled off, and
jumped into the water. "Truly," said one of the Hares, "things
are not so bad as they seem:
"There is always someone worse off than yourself."
The Wolf and the Kid
A Kid was perched up on the top of a house, and looking down
saw a Wolf passing under him. Immediately he began to revile and
Aesop's Fables |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Poems by Bronte Sisters: The room is quiet, thoughts alone
People its mute tranquillity;
The yoke put off, the long task done,--
I am, as it is bliss to be,
Still and untroubled. Now, I see,
For the first time, how soft the day
O'er waveless water, stirless tree,
Silent and sunny, wings its way.
Now, as I watch that distant hill,
So faint, so blue, so far removed,
Sweet dreams of home my heart may fill,
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