"Don't be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning. That's only the initial impression. The important thing is not to retreat; you have to master yourself."

-- Olga Korbut

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“My purpose is to have American Jews look away from the success story with which they've cheered themselves up, and to have them remember the classical tradition, whatever it is.”
“You are not in this life to count up victories and defeats. You are in it to love and be loved.”

Source : Matthew Thomas (2014). “We Are Not Ourselves: A Novel”, p.594, Simon and Schuster
“The head has the most beautiful appearance, as well as the highest station, in a human figure.”
“Rejection is good. Putting others ahead of self, giving things away. Success, money, power, fame, happiness, friends; any kind of pleasure - giving it all away, in the pyramid scheme of life, with the knowledge that everything will be returned, and being satisfied with that knowledge; not with the actual return of things, but the idea of the return of things. There is death.”
“true weanedness from the world don't consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by the sight of something better.”
“He needs to get a hard slap of reality in the face every once in a while. He has an arrogant side.”
“And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said-and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living! And she was a wise woman. The dead are beyond your help or mine, poor things. But the living need us. Thirty souls at the least, Phryne, are still on that island to praise God who might now be angels-or devils.”

Source : Kerry Greenwood (2011). “Cocaine Blues”, p.60, ReadHowYouWant.com
“All I need is a big surfboard and a piano.”

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