"I'd let my golden chances pass me by."

-- Oscar Hammerstein II

#Golden Quotes #Chance Quotes #Shyness Quotes

“Do not desire a long life or an early death”
“The secret to walkinÂ´ on water is knowing where the rocks are.”
“All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well.”
“Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.”
“Knowledge is the reward of action. For it is by doing things that one becomes transformed. Executing a symbolical gesture, actually living through, to the very limit, a particular role, one comes to realize the truth inherent in the role. Suffering its consequences, one fathoms and exhausts its contents.”

Source : Heinrich Zimmer (2013). “Philosophies of India”, p.533, Routledge
“Do you take pride in your hurt?' Samuel asked. 'Does it make you seem large and tragic? . . . Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience . . . there's all that fallow land, and here beside me is all that fallow man. It seems a waste. And I have a bad feeling about waste because I could never afford it. Is it a good feeling to let your life lie fallow?”
“When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.”
“Every time I close my eyes blowing that trumpet of mine, I look right into the heart of good old New Orleans. It has given me something to live for.”

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