"Human will-power alone is not enough. Will-power is excellent and we should always be using it; but it is not enough. A desire to live a good life is not enough. Obviously we should all have that desire, but it will not guarantee success."

-- Martyn Lloyd-Jones

#Good Life Quotes #Desire Quotes #Guarantees Quotes

“It has always seemed to me that my existence consisted purely and exclusively of nothing but the most outrageous nonsense.”
“But what is memory if not the language of feeling, a dictionary of faces and days and smells which repeat themselves like the verbs and adjectives in a speech, sneaking in behind the thing itself,into the pure present, making us sad or teaching us vicariously...”

Source : Julio Cortazar (2016). “Hopscotch, Blow-Up, We Love Glenda So Much”, p.143, Everyman's Library
“I was very new to working in front of the camera when I started shooting Gatsby, so I set myself the mission of gleaning as much information as possible out of the much more experienced actors. The cast was astoundingly talented.”
“I don't really get romance. Bring me fish or moose, not flowers.”

Source : "The Saturday Rumpus Interview With Eden Robinson". Interview With Helga Schimkat, therumpus.net. September 24, 2016.
“Passion is more developed than discovered.”
“The whole deal is when you walk onstage, you're up there bigger than life. People idolize you.”
“Whilst we strive To live most free, we're caught in our own toils.”

Source : John Ford (1811). “John Ford's Dramatic Works”, p.139
“A shining isle in a stormy sea, We seek it ever with smiles and sighs; To-day is sad. In the bland To-be, Serene and lovely To-morrow lies.”

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