"To face a man in combat is challenge enough. To find the goddess in a woman is the life work of a man. Hard though the first may be, the second is the harder longer road. But every man seeks the woman of the dream, and only the best of men finds what he seeks."

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Source : Rosalind Miles (2007). “Isolde, Queen of the Western Isle: The First of the Tristan and Isolde Novels”, p.48, Broadway Books

Rosalind Miles

#Dream Quotes #Men Quotes #Challenges Quotes

“The history of the Erie Railroad ever since 1901 has been a record of progress”

Source : John Moody, Gerhard Richard Lomer, Charles William Jefferys (1919). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”
“The fool who traveled is better off than the wise man who stayed home.”
“Wherever moral ambition exists, there right exists. And moral ambition itself must be presumed present in subconsciousness, even when the conscious self seems to reject it, so long as society has resources for bringing it into action; in much the same way that the life-saver presumes life to exist in the drowned man until he has exhausted his resources for recovering respiration.”
“Don't be the team that gets hurt.”

Source : Source: ftw.usatoday.com
“The simplest and most satisfactory view is that thought is simply behavior - verbal or nonverbal, covert or overt. It is not some mysterious process responsible for behavior but the very behavior itself in all the complexity of its controlling relations.”
“You've got to earn respect as life goes on.”
“I'm not looking for Miss Right, right now. I'm just sort of working on becoming Mr. Right.”
“Be tough in the way a blade of grass is: rooted, willing to lean, and at peace with what is around it.”

Source : Natalie Goldberg (2011). “Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life”, p.192, Open Road Media

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