"It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race."

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Source : Robert W. Service (2012). “Robert W. Service: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.46, Dundurn

Robert W. Service

#Winning Quotes #Race Quotes #Quiet Quotes

“Do you think you can love too much? Or experience too much beauty, at the cost of too much pain? Do you think when art is defined by expressing so much beauty and so much pain, just to be able to cope with both - and bring other people something creatively beautiful at the cost of that pain - that we can draw a line of 'normalcy'? It's important to think about.”
“God reminded me how beautiful we all are to Him, after all, we were created in His own image, and He looks at me, at you, in all our sweat and dirt and brokenness, and says, "I choose you. You are beautiful.”
“Crowley shook his head. "I sometimes wonder if it was a good idea having Halt train apprentices. He seems to teach them no respect for authority." "Oh, he teaches us to respect authority," Gilan said innocently. "He just teaches us to ignore it when necessary.”
“At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.”
“That's a long way of saying no, I'm always too bound up in thinking about the characters in whatever I'm working on and trying to make good to dwell on characters from previous books.”

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“Just so you know, there's a space that only you can fill. Just so you know, I loved you then, I guess I always will.”
“The more materialistic science becomes, the more angels shall I paint. Their wings are my protest in favor of the immortality of the soul.”
“There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.”

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