Kyra Davis quotes

“They say a good man is worth fighting for. But a man who's good for YOU shouldn't make you fight just for the right to be in his life.”
-- Kyra Davis

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“Sometimes we have to step out of our comfort zones. We have to break the rules. And we have to discover the sensuality of fear. We need to face it, challenge it, dance with it.”
-- Kyra Davis

Source : Kyra Davis (2013). “Just One Night, Part 3: Binding Agreement”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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“A little mystery is not such a bad thing.”
-- Kyra Davis

Source : Kyra Davis (2012). “Lust, Loathing and a Little Lip Gloss”, p.392, Harlequin

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“I'm beginning to think that life is about passing moments and small celebrations. Without them there's only pain, fear, ambition, and, for some of us, foolish hope.”
-- Kyra Davis

Source : Kyra Davis (2013). “Just One Night, Part 2: Exposed”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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“A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage.”

“Sawyer was always the Vincent boy worth fighting for. He's the special one.”

“We go fish, we also catch fighting fish, looking for birds and it was for kampong people, the paddy field was our the play field for the children.”

“God never can use any man very much till he has grace enough to forget himself entirely while doing God's work; for He will not give His glory to another nor share with the most valued instrument the praise that belongs to Jesus Christ alone.”

“Men have presented their plans and philosophies for the remedying of earth's ills, but Jesus stands alone in presenting not a system, but His own personality as capable of supplying the needs of the soul.”

“Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.”

Source : More Poems (1936) no. 36

“What's natural is the microbe. All the rest-heath, integrity, purity (if you like)-is a product of the human will, of a vigilance that must never falter. The good man, the man who infects hardly anyone, is the man who has the fewest lapses of attention.”

“I count it a high honor to belong to a profession in which the good men write every paragraph, every sentence, every line, as lovingly as any Addison or Steele, and do so in full regard that by tomorrow it will have been burned, or used, if at all, to line a shelf.”

“States are doomed when they are unable to distinguish good men from bad.”

Source : "Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers" by Diogenes Laërtius, (§ 5),

“If we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions of the soul implying a rational principle, and the function of a good man to be the good and noble performance of these, and if any action is well performed when it is performed in accordance with the appropriate excellence human good turns out to be activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, and if there are more than one virtue, in accordance with the best and most complete.”