"Hair is gray and the firers are burning. So many dreams on the shelf. You say I wanted you to be proud of me. I always wanted that myself."

-- Tori Amos

#Dream Quotes #Pride Quotes #Hair Quotes

“And then she had to fill out so many forms she forgot why she had come and what she had left behind.”
“Your love for what you do and willingness to push yourself where others aren't prepared to go is what will make you great.”
“It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.”

Source : The Mixture as Before "The Treasure" (1940)
“Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.”

Source : George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.152, Penguin
“Fear of something is at the root of hate for others and hate within will eventually destroy the hater. Keep your thoughts free from hate, and you will have no fear from those who hate you. ... David, though small, was filled with truth, right thinking and good will for others. Goliath represents one who let fear into his heart, and it stayed there long enough to grow into hate for others.”
“Sometimes it's not catastrophic. Sometimes you only come to the bottom of your coffee cup. Sometimes you have a good day. No one wants to know. No one wants to tell you about theirs either. You might somehow take it. Turn it against them. See the flaw. You always tell them the whole thing sucks. It keeps you alive. They figure if you're out there having a rotten time, everything's fine and you're doing your part. No one will ever try to take your bad times away from you but they'll come swarming for your happiness.”
“Labor was marching toward the goal of industrial democracy and contributing constructively toward a more rational arrangement of our domestic economy.”

Source : Labor and the Nation, delivered 3 September 1937 in Washington D.C.
“Celeborn is more fixed in his beliefs and methods than Galadriel, which is his failing, perhaps. As a team, they work well, although apparently they only have sex once every 2,000 years or so.”

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