"The first start toward success is to be glad you are yourself."

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Source : Florence Scovel Shinn (2009). “The Game of Life and How to Play It”, p.179, Penguin

Florence Scovel Shinn

#Firsts Quotes #Glad Quotes

“All governments are lying cocksuckers.”

Source : "Philosophy: The Best of Bill Hicks". Comedy album by Bill Hicks, 2001.
“I think my work has to do with a sense that we are attempting, all the time, to create a logical, rational path through the day. To the left and right there are an amazing set of distractions that we usually can't afford to follow. But the poet is willing to stop anywhere.”
“Recognize the good in others, not their stains.”
“And I have always told the patients when I talk to them. When they come around and say, "What will you have to drink? Oh that's right you don't drink." Just speak up and say, 'Of course I drink. But I just don't drink alcohol.'”
“I never before knew the full value of trees. Under them I breakfast, dine, write, read and receive my company.”
“Ohana means family - no one gets left behind and no one is ever forgotten.”
“What you want is practice, practice, practice. It doesnâ€™t matter what we write (at least this is my view) at our age, so long as we write continually as well as we can. I feel that every time I write a page either of prose or of verse, with real effort, even if itâ€™s thrown into the fire the next minute, I am so much further on.”
“Obviously, it wasn't meant for me to die of cancer at 40. Every day my life surprises me, just like my cancer diagnosis surprised me. But you roll with it. That's our job as humans.”

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