Ah the power of the meme. Found this one at Kitabkhana, and in the time that Blogger took to load up, i traced it back via Maud Newton, Return of the Reluctant, Caterina.net, David Chess, Long story; short pier, Notes from the Tundra, Happy Potterer, and then i got fed up. Anyway.
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
And i picked up Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet and the chapter on Children, and got:

Let your bending in the Archer's hand be for gladness; For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves the bow that is stable.

And you? (To those of you who don't blog, feel free to use the Comment link.)