"Contemporary poets are skeptical and suspicious even, or perhaps especially, about themselves. They publicly confess to being poets only reluctantly, as if they were a little ashamed of it. But in our clamorous times it's much easier to acknowledge your faults, at least if they're attractively packaged, than to recognize your own merits, since these are hidden deeper and you never quite believe in them yourself."

-- Wislawa Szymborska

#Believe Quotes #Littles Quotes #Never Quit Quotes

“The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.”
“Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action.”
“What we do not understand, we cannot control.”

Source : Charles A. Reich (1970). “The Greening of America”
“Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul.”
“My father was not a political animal.”

Source : RealClearPolitics Interview, www.realclearpolitics.com. March 12, 2010.
“Getting enough sleep can be just as important as working out.”

Source : Ali VIncent (2010). “Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life”, p.67, Rodale
“If it's a really well written villain, he probably has more layers than the archetypal good person. So that would be very attractive to an actor. No one chooses to be a villain; it's usually a reaction to something else.”
“Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure; whatever she commands, do.”

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