"Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. ... Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles."

-- Swami Vivekananda

#Character Quotes #Long Quotes #Effort Quotes

“Where does the hand become the wrist? where does the neck become the shoulder? The watershed and then the weight, whatever turns up and tips us over that razor's edge between something and nothing, between one and the other.”

Source : Simon Armitage (2005). “The Shout: Selected Poems”, Houghton Mifflin
“I feel a certain calm. There is safety in the midst of danger. What would life be if we didn't dare to take things in hand?”
“As long as I can make them laugh, it doesnâ€™t matter how, Iâ€™ll be alright. If I succeed in that, the human beings probably wonâ€™t mind it too much if I remain outside their lives. The one thing I must avoid is becoming offensive in their eyes: I shall be nothing, the wind, the sky.”

Source : Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.13, New Directions Publishing
“Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on a rock." - Frankenstein p115”
“[Robinson Crusoe] is the true prototype of the British colonist. The whole Anglo-Saxon spirit is in Crusoe: the manly independence, the unconscious cruelty, the persistence, the slow yet efficient intelligence, the sexual apathy, the calculating taciturnity.”
“Choose love not in the shallows but in the deep.”
“If you want to shoot rare, fast-moving elephants, you should always carry a loaded gun.”
“Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.”

Source : Ann Patchett (2004). “Truth and Beauty: A Friendship”

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