"One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it."

-- Sidney Howard

#Inspirational Quotes #Life Quotes #Giving Up Quotes

“Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history.”
“Have you any old grudges you would like to pay, Any wrongs laid up from a bygone day? -Gather them now and lay them away When Christmas comes. Hard thoughts are heavy to carry, my friend, And life is short from beginning to end; Be kind to yourself, leave nothing to mend When Christmas comes.”
“Love lasteth long as the money endureth.”
“I can reach people the average person can't reach because I'm as grounded as I am.”
“Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done. These models may be fairly sophisticated and recent, as is perhaps the case with 'motive' or 'impulse', but one of the commonest and most primitive types of model is one which is apt to baffle us through its very naturalness and simplicity.”

Source : "A Plea for Excuses". Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, www.ditext.com. 1956.
“Whenever women have made any social gains, whether it's being accepted as athletes or moving into the professions, it's going to be contradicted with an image of woman as small, diminished, reduced, brought back to a childish body. The result is that a lot of extraordinary power is going to be diverted into making oneself smaller than one is meant to be.”
“We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we made.”
“Keeping a diary is like closing your bedroom door and refusing to come out until dinnertime: it is a declaration of self.”

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