"You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give."

-- E. O. Wilson

#Hard Times Quotes #Giving Quotes #Goal Quotes

“America has been a beacon of hope for vulnerable people throughout the world.”
“For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.”
“I think the greatest legacy of the 1960s was the general feeling that not only can you fight the powers that be, but you can win.”
“Oh my God, this can't be happening!" I cried. "What?" "Mopeds? Those are the wheels Pete gives us? I knew he was pissed off at me! It was all that time I spent in the hospital wasn't it? Or was it the wrecks? But I only tore up one car last time! And that wasn't my fault!”
“The key to the understanding of the character of the conscious lies in the region of the unconscious.”
“Life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder than life itself.”
“I now find myself looking at every sentence, every image, that purports to tell the West about the Arabs and the Muslims with this question in mind: to what extent does it feed into existing stereotypes and established prejudice?”

Source : Ahdaf Soueif (2012). “Mezzaterra: Fragments from the Common Ground”, p.278, A&C Black
“I could make you read the entire quadrant exposition again...BACK TO BACK TO BACK TO BACK.”

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