"Fortunate are those who take the first steps."

-- Paulo Coelho

#Challenges Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Steps Quotes

“If you're automatically sure that you know what reality is and who and what is really important-if you want to operate on your default-setting-then you, like me, will not consider possibilities that aren't pointless and annoying.”
“The mind should be accustomed to make wise reflections, and draw curious conclusions as it goes along; the habitude of which made Pliny the Younger affirm that he never read book so bad but he drew some profit from it.”
“And now leave me in peace for a bit! I don't want to answer a string of questions while I am eating. I want to think!" "Good Heavens!" said Pippin. "At breakfast?”
“I have often noticed that when Fate has a phenomenal run of ill luck in store for you, she begins by dropping a rare piece of good fortune into your lap, thereby enhancing the artistic effect of the sequel.”

Source : Ethel Smyth (1946). “Impressions that remained”
“In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that i will come to no harm.”
“You always end up with too many pictures to edit and too few that you feel 'got it'.”
“We live in an age where revenge seems to be the most important thing for individuals and countries. Why not forgive each other? Decide to accept each other's differences and move on.”

Source : "Liam Neeson Seeks Revenge in Seraphim Falls!". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. January 26, 2007.
“[T]he States can best govern our home concerns and the general government our foreign ones. I wish, therefore . . . never to see all offices transferred to Washington, where, further withdrawn from the eyes of the people, they may more secretly be bought and sold at market.”

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