"What can I do now? What am I to become? How can I live in this world I'm condemned to but can't endure? They couldn't stand it either, so they made a world of their own. Well, they have each other's company, and they are heroes, whereas I'm quite alone, and have none of the qualities essential to heroism - the spirit, the toughness, the dedication. I'm back where I was as a child, solitary, helpless, unwanted, frightened."

-- Anna Kavan

#Children Quotes #Hero Quotes #Dedication Quotes

“A face is a road map of someone's life. Without any need to amplify that or draw attention to it, there's a great deal that's communicated about who this person is and what their life experiences have been.”

Source : "What I've Learned: Chuck Close" by Andy Ward, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.
“It can take years to mold a dream. It takes only a fraction of a second for it to be shattered.”
“Why see the world / when you got the beach?”

Source : Song: Sweet Life, 2012
“This is America. You're allowed to have your views.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“I've always been someone who really watches other people, human behavior. To watch it and be able to express it through your version has always been really exciting to me”
“The impression that you are a demigod worried me. I wanted to be like an ordinary human being with virtues and vices.”
“I can't stand being stagnant. Every day is a new opportunity to achieve something, even on a small scale.”
“The one and only formative power given to man Is thought. By his thinking he not only makes character, but body and affairs, for as he thinketh within himself, so is he. Prejudice is a mist, which in our journey through the world often dims the brightest and obscures the best of all the good and glorious objects that meet us on our way.”

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