"But avoidance allows you to believe that you're making all kinds of strides when you're not."

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Source : Liz Murray (2011). “Breaking Night”, p.200, Random House

Liz Murray

#Believe Quotes #Kind Quotes #Stride Quotes

“Oh my God, everyday is a constant struggle and battle. Especially with an artist like me, when what I am doing is not the in thing, it is harder to break someone like me. And I'm a woman too, it's ridiculous.”
“All great success and achievement is preceded and accompanied by hard, hard, work. When in doubt, 'try harder.' And if that doesn't work, try harder still!”
“I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.”
“Many women I know think the ideal of happiness is to be in love with a great man, or to be the wife of a great public success; to share his triumph! They forget you share the man as well!”

Source : Ada Leverson (2012). “Tenterhooks”, p.130, tredition
“The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.”
“When you're working with good people it brings good things out in you.”
“It is essential that the painter should develop not only his eyes, but also his soul, so that it too may be capable of weighing colors in balance...”
“If you are required to kill someone today, on the promise of a political leader that someone else shall live in peace tomorrow, believe me, you are not only a double murderer, you are a suicide, too.”

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