"I've heard a lot of great success stories from writers - how so many of them struggled to get where they are and how persistence pays off. I learned that some writers are good at doing readings and some are not so good at it."

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Kevin Sampsell

#Reading Quotes #Persistence Quotes #Stories Quotes

“I like to think of myself as a reasonable man. But I have buried too many friends in the too-recent past, and I have seen too many lies go unquestioned, and too many questions go unasked. There is a time when even reasonable men must begin to take unreasonable actions. To do anything else is to be less than human.”
“Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.”

Source : Ouida (1875). “Chandos: A Novel”, p.106
“I have a job to do, I have a wife and child to take care of. So I don't pay attention to things that I don't know anything about. I've got my own situation to deal with.”

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“If you learn how to forgive others for not being strong, then people can learn how to forgive you for your own issues.”
“No one runs fast without an extreme amount of training. Like today, you see kids walking around dribbling a basketball. I had a bag with track shoes in it, and I used to go to the track every day.”
“Too many things are possible in a dream. It's most interesting when you don't know which space you're in.”

Source : "Q&A: Atlanta Director Hiro Murai On Working With Donald Glover, Dream Logic, And That 'Black Justin Bieber' Episode". Interview with Eric Ducker, www.mtv.com. October 4, 2016.
“Now although man is created for the possession of happiness, yet, having deviated from his true end, his nature has become deformed and is entirely repugnant to true beatitude. And on this account we are forced to submit to God this depraved nature of ours which fills our understanding with so many occupations, and causes us to deviate from the true path, in order that he may entirely consume it until nothing remains there but himself; otherwise the soul could never attain stability nor repose, for she was created for no other end.”

Source : Don Cattaneo Marabotto, St. Catherine of Genoa (2015). “The Spiritual Doctrine of St. Catherine of Genoa”, p.41, TAN Books
“To redeem creation the saint wages war on the entire fabric of creation, with the bare weapons of truth and love.”

Source : Jacques Maritain (1966). “A Maritain Reader: Selected Writings”

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