"To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing."

-- Janet Erskine Stuart

#Positive Quotes #Aim Quotes

“We have to accept ourselves in order to write. Now none of us does that fully: few of us do it even halfway. Donâ€™t wait for one hundred percent acceptance of yourself before you write, or even eight percent acceptance. Just write. The process of writing is an activity that teaches us about acceptance.”
“A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milk's leap toward immortality.”

Source : Any Number Can Play (1957) p. 105
“Let me give you a word of advice. A loyalty that holds fast will become a blade, and will some day pierce those you hold dear. Open both eyes wide. That is, if youâ€¦ donâ€™t want to end up like me.”
“I've just started school again, and it was a bit strange to start off with; it took me three or four days to get used to it. My friends have been great, they've been treating me normally.”
“Genius has its fatality. Must we not see in its works a manifestation of the will of Providence?”

Source : Arsène Houssaye (1852). “Philosophers and Actresses”, p.107
“Take less time to read the scorecard and more time to read the hole.”
“Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely-caluculated less or more.”
“Man is a fraction of the animal world. Our history is an afterthought, no more, tacked to an infinite calender. We are not so unique as we should like to believe. And if man in a time of need seeks deeper knowledge concerning himself, then he must explore those animal horizons from which we have made our quick little march.”

Source : "African Genesis".

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