Leigh Mitchell Hodges famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Failure is often that early morning hour of darkness which precedes the dawning of the day of success.
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Whether one is twenty, forty, or sixty; whether one has succeeded, failed or just muddled along; whether yesterday was full of sun or storm, or one of those dull days with no weather at all, life begins each morning!
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Each morning is the open door to a new world - new vistas, new aims, new tryings.
-- Leigh Mitchell Hodges
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I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die, or am conquered, or my term expires, or Congress or the country forsakes me...
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What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
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No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.
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Your fingertips across my skin, the palm trees swaying in the wind - images. You sang me Spanish lullabies, the sweetest sadness in your eyes - clever trick. / I cannot go to the ocean, I cannot drive the streets at night, I cannot wake up in the morning without you on my mind, so you're gone and I'm haunted, and I bet you are just - fine. Did I make it that easy to walk right in and out of my life?
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Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
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We now to peace and darkness And earth and thee restore Thy creature that thou madest And wilt cast forth no more.
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If I had a life with Woods to look forward to I knew I could fight whatever darkness that tried to take me. Before Woods, I didnt know what I was living for. In my search to find myself, Id found so much more. I knew now why I wanted to live. I understood love. I had found it.
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Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness. More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.
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Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.
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Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
