"I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge."

-- Gwendolyn Brooks

#Writing Quotes #Challenges Quotes #Goes On Quotes

“Only let us love God, and then nature will compass us about like a cloud of Divine witnesses; and all influences from the earth, and things on the earth, will be ministers of God to do us good. Only let there be God within us, and then every thing outside us will become a godlike help.”

Source : William Mountford (1858). “Enthanasy; Or, Happy Talk Towards the End of Life ...”, p.155
“If one commits the act of sodomy with a cow, an ewe, or a camel, their urine and their excrements become impure, and even their milk may no longer be consumed. The animal must then be killed and as quickly as possible and burned.”
“Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.”
“Trimming consists of clipping off little bits here and there from those observations which differ most in excess from the mean, and in sticking them onto those which are too small; a species of 'equitable adjustment,' as a radical would term it, which cannot be admitted in science.”
“He picked up the wrench and broke the guyâ€™s wrist with it, one, and then the other wrist, two, and turned back and did the same to the guy who had held the hammer, three, four. The two men were somebodyâ€™s weapons, consciously deployed, and no soldier left an enemyâ€™s abandoned ordnance on the field in working order. The doctorâ€™s wife was watching from the cabin door, all kinds of terror in her face. "What?" Reacher asked her.”
“Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them.”

Source : Aaron Hill (1760). “Works”, p.21
“if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don't do it.”
“Remember that failure is part of the process of successful running. Performance is a roller coaster; to think otherwise is irrational and will cause you much stress and discouragement. Lighten up on yourself. Ups and downs can beÂ expected. The performance of most serious runners fluctuates by the week. You win some, you lose some; some days you're hot, some days you're not. Don't fight with yourself when failure, the teacher, pays an unexpected visit. Open up to learning from it.”

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