"There are some people whom we envy not because they are rich or handsome or successful, although they may be all or any of these, but because everything they are or do seems to be all of a piece, so that even if they wanted to they could not be or do otherwise."

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Source : Elizabeth Bishop (2008). “Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters”

Elizabeth Bishop

#Success Quotes #People Quotes #Envy Quotes

“No freedom til we're equal...damn right I support it.”

Source : Song: Same Love
“I wanted it to be kind of dreamy and 1920s, when everything is soft-focus,”
“The best way to battle fear is with courage. You have to look at the opposite of fear: Fear is scared of courage.”
“Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy. It's like fire. If you can control it, it can cook for you; it can heat your house. If you can't control it, it will burn everything around you and destroy you. If you can control your fear, it makes you more alert, like a deer coming across the lawn.”
“The world is wide, full of happenings. Keep this in mind and never believe 'I'm the onlyone who knows.'”
“I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be.”

Source : Mary MacLane (2014). “I Await the Devil's Coming: Annotated & Unexpurgated”, p.125, Petrarca Press
“Not to sound too pathetic, but there have been long stretches where I haven't been able to get a job.”
“It's a hard place this world can be. No wonder a baby cries coming in to it. Tears from the start”

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