"For me, a happy ending is not everything works out just right and there is a big bow, it's more coming to a place where a person has a clear vision of his or her own life in a way that enables them to kind of throw down their crutches and walk."

-- Jill McCorkle

#Work Out Quotes #Vision Quotes #Way Quotes

“I was one of the first veejays to take the camera out on location, and that's what was unique about MTV at that time.”
“Even if your competitor is still small in size or weak, you should take him seriously and treat him as a giant. Likewise, even if your competitor is massive in size, you shouldn't regard yourself as a weakling.”
“When I was young, I spent my days and nights trying to impress future generations. I spent them. They're gone. All because I was deathly afraid of being forgotten. And then came the regret. The worst things of all worst things.”

Source : Miguel Syjuco (2010). “Ilustrado”, p.399, Pan Macmillan
“Where there's music there can be no evil.”
“Yes, well, life is a folly. If you live long enough, nothing is surprising.”

Source : Tracy Chevalier (1999). “Girl with a Pearl Earring”, E P Dutton
“Will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of his passions, shows the stuff of which he is made.”
“... see well how it often befalls that to rise to the topmost degree would make it seem that the abyss is on high.”
“When men do not run they are likely to die prematurely from dysfunction of the heart and vascular systems or from disabling chronic disease.”

Source : Paul Shepard (1973). “The tender carnivore and the sacred game”

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