"No human pursuit achieves dignity until it can be called work."

-- Beryl Markham

#Work Quotes #Dignity Quotes #Achieve Quotes

“If you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.”
“My experience is that I find myself having to constantly define myself to others, day-in, day-out. The quote that's helped me the most through that is from Toni Morrison's â€œBelovedâ€ where she says, â€œDefinitions belong to the definers, not the definedâ€ - so I find myself defining myself for other people lest I be defined by others and stuck into some box where I don't particularly belong”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Romney-Ryan is likely the best matched 'team' that has been on a national ticket in a very long time.”
“A duck's nest was found today near the trail on the dry open prairie with as far as could be seen no water or marsh near. The bird flew off but could not tell what species. The eggs nine originally.”
“[I did] Some [reading to prep for Expelled]. I read one book cover to cover, From Darwin to Hitler , and that was a very interesting book--one of these rare books I wish had been even longer. It's about how Darwin 's theory--supposedly concocted by this mild-mannered saintly man, with a flowing white beard like Santa Claus--led to the murder of millions of innocent people.”
“The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again, pronounce a text, Cry hem; and reading what they never wrote Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene!”
“The person who thinks he has found the ultimate truth is wrong.”
“You must watch the pictures that you paint with your imagination. Your environment and the conditions of your life at any given time are the direct result of your own inner expectations. If you imagine dire circumstances, ill health or desperate loneliness, these will be 'automatically' materialized, for these thoughts themselves bring about the conditions that will give them a reality in physical terms. If you would have good health then you must imagine this as vividly as you fearfully imagine ill health.”

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