"The fulfilling life, the distinctive life, the relevant life is an achievement. To do whatever you do for no reason other than you love it and believe in its importance."

-- David McCullough

#Believe Quotes #Achievement Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“I have read of women who have been strongly, grandly brave. Sometimes I have dreamed that I might be brave. The possibilities of this life are magnificent.”

Source : Mary MacLane (2014). “I Await the Devil's Coming: Annotated & Unexpurgated”, p.82, Petrarca Press
“Whoever sides with the revolutionary people is a revolutionary. Whoever sides with imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat-capitalism is a counter-revolutionary. Whomever sides with the revolutionary people in words only but acts otherwise is a revolutionary in speech. Whoever sides with the revolutionary people in deed as well as in word is a revolutionary in the full sense.”
“So we can sit with Lee Unkrich and Andrew Stanton, and all the other folks and experience what the film is going to be like. And then we go away into a room, and we talk about what worked and what didn't. And then we take all of those findings and we do that whole process again.”

Source : "It's All In Your Head: Director Pete Docter Gets Emotional In 'Inside Out'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 10, 2015.
“It's more important to me to get an e-mail that says, 'I saw your page and it changed my life,' than how many hits the page got.”
“Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no human can hasten or retard.”
“Kate Winslet also happens to be one of my close friends who I goof off with like crazy. It was a reunion of two people who, I guess, are a little bit older, a tiny bit wiser but ultimately were the same as they were when they were 21.”
“Your experience will be a lesson to all of us men to be careful not to marry ladies in very high positions.”

Source : 1978 Unsolicited advice to Lord Snowdon on the ending of his marriage to Princess Margaret, quoted in A Barrow International Gossip (1983).
“The fallyng out of faithfull frends is the renuyng of loue.”

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