"You will pass through storms and heavy rains, and at times you will suffer defeat. The essence of the creative life, however, is not to give up in the face of defeat but to follow the rainbow that exists within your heart."

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Source : Daisaku Ikeda (1975*). “The tide toward the 21st century: addresses”

Daisaku Ikeda

#Giving Up Quotes #Rain Quotes #Heart Quotes

“While our bodies move ever forward on the time line, our minds continuously trace backward, seeking shape and meaning as deftly as any arrow seeking its mark”

Source : Lucy Grealy (1994). “Autobiography of a Face”, p.38, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“God designed the stomach to eject what is bad for it, but not the human brain.”
“Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance.”
“Do not conceive that fine Clothes make fine Men, any more than fine feathers make fine Birds. A plain genteel dress is more admired and obtains more credit than lace and embroidery in the Eyes of the judicious and sensible.”
“There's no shame in crawling when one can't walk.”

Source : Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.320, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Nature's message was always there and for us to see. It was written on the wings of butterflies.”
“I certainly was an actor and then I drifted more towards writing and directing.”
“Ah, life, life, how madly, how cruelly it raced along your pulses!”

Source : Martha Ostenso (1929). “The Young May Moon”

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