"Half the human race can change its name and sometimes its nation without suffering â€” at least half! All women!"

-- Jean Giraudoux

#Race Quotes #Names Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“My other life keeps me calm and grounded and normal.”
“The preacher who is concerned with gaining a reputation, rising in his profession, is always in bondage. The itch for bigness is a dangerous thing. It has made a castaway of many a man whom God once richly blessed. A man should desire to be neither larger nor smaller than pleases God. Better than that, he should not bother at all about how large or how small but rather how faithful he shall be.”
“Don't be afraid of failure, be afraid of not trying in the first place.”

Source : FaceBook post by Marie Forleo from Dec 19, 2014
“I'm still trying to figure out how I feel about anything at any given moment. When you feel like you've arrived somewhere, that's the real problem.”
“I have so little mastered the art of tranquil living that wherever I go I trail storm clouds of drama around me.”
“She asks if I left a girlfriend behind when we moved. I say no, and she smiles, which just about ruins me.”
“Writing a first novel takes so much effort, with such little promise of result or reward, that it must necessarily be a labor of love bordering on madness.”

Source : "Know thy subject" by Steven Saylor, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2002.
“It's difficult for me to imagine any scene differently because I've read the book so many times. The book, as a whole, seems like a document that wouldn't withstand any changes at this point. Or perhaps I simply can't imagine having to revise it again.”

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