"Faith in oneself unlocks those hidden powers that all of us have, but that so few of us use."

-- Albert J. Beveridge

#Use Quotes #Oneself Quotes

“The Haitians, who knew something about suffering and survival, had a beautiful phrase... The Translation is not perfect, but the nut of it was: 'The season of pain is never over until the sky begins to cry.”
“They were not friends. They didn't know each other. It struck Tom like a horrible truth, true for all time, true for the people he had known in the past and for those he would know in the future: each had stood and would stand before him, and he would know time and time again that he would never know them, and the worst was that there would always be the illusion, for a time, that he did know them, and that he and they were completely in harmony and alike. For an instant the wordless shock of his realization seemed more than he could bear.”

Source : Patricia Highsmith (1999). “Talented Mr. Ripley ; Ripley under ground ; Ripley's game”, Random House, Inc.
“Let not one single life have passed in vain. What really matters is who you love and how you love.”
“Arlene and I have to get a divorce. She thinks I'm a pervert because I drank our water bed.”
“Oversteer is best cause you dont see the tree that kills you”

Source : "Top Gear" (TV Series), (2002-).
“A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.”
“It is easy to act as a Saturday morning quarterback and replay the game lost the night before. All of us seem to have better hindsight (the ability to see after the event what should have been done) than foresight”

Source : Carlos E. Asay (1994). “The road to somewhere: a guide for young men and women”, Bookcraft Pubs
“I'd sit on a horse and forget I was even sick.”

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