"I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride."

-- Muriel Rukeyser

#Pride Quotes #Offering Quotes #Singing Quotes

“The Olympic Games of the Modern Era began in 1896 in the city of Athens.”
“Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.”
“In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.”
“Anything you do from the heart enriches you, but sometimes not till years later.”
“For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone. If you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of each of your arms.”
“Everybody that wants to be successful should always be careful of what you wish for. A lot of artists and entertainers want to put the genie back in the bottle and wish they could go back to being what they were.”
“The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the greatest show of magnanimity and the least of it in reality.”
“That is the charm of a map. It represents the other side of the horizon where everything is possible. It has the magic of anticipation without the toil and sweat of realization. The greatest romance ever written pales before the possibilities of adventure that lie in the faint blue trails from sea to sea. The perfect journey is never finished, the goal is always just across the next river, round the shoulder of the next mountain. There is always one more track to follow, one more mirage to explore. Achievement is the price which the wanderer pays for the right to venture.”

Source : Rosita Forbes (1935). “From Red Sea to Blue Nile: a thousand miles of Ethiopia”

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