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Off-Beat Spark: Quirky Light & Dark Poems for Life’s Ups & Downs

by David Hardy

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Andrew Galloway said: " Off-Beat Spark is the first volume of poetry by Marple based poet David Hardy. A relative newcomer to the Greater Manchester poetry scene, David takes us with him on a magical mystery tour through his own off-beat perspective on the human condition, ...more "

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Pantheologies: Gods, Worlds, Monsters

by Mary-Jane Rubenstein

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Andrew’s Quotes

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: helping-others, make-a-difference, purpose, purpose-of-life

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“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: ataraxy, defiance, empowerment, independence, individuality, self-assurance, self-awareness, self-containment, self-determination, self-esteem, self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficiency, self-trust, solitude

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“It does not take much to make us realize what fools we are, but the little it takes is long in coming.”
― Flannery O'Connor

tags: growing-older, life-lessons, time-passing, wisdom

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“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre