"A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit."

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Source : Thomas a Kempis, Aeterna Press (1941*). “The Following of Christ”, p.78, Aeterna Press

Desiderius Erasmus

#Wisdom Quotes #Overcoming Quotes #Nails Quotes

“I thought there was something in Ted Cruz`s dignity that prevented him by endorsing a candidate like that, because that was the best explanation of what he did.”
“I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.”

Source : Cormac McCarthy (2010). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.197, Pan Macmillan
“Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn't want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again.”
“i want to look at all my tears, she said. which made me shiver”

Source : Ellen Wittlinger (2012). “Blind Faith”, p.13, Simon and Schuster
“I was telling somebody just the other day, there's technically such a hierarchy in this business. You have film, that's the ideal; then you have TV, and things like web series do not claim as much cred, but the fact is, if the material is solid and I believe and trust in the team that's involved, I don't care what format it is.”
“The listener must be gripped and whether he likes it or not, drawn into the flight path of the sounds without special training being necessary. The sensual shock must be just as forceful as when one hears a clap of thunder or looks into a bottomless abyss”
“Who wants that? I'd rather choose to fall in love and be hurt. Sometimes I can't even sleep because I love someone too much. And there's always sadness in our lives. It's that sad feeling that keeps us going. - Usagi/Sailor Moon”
“Those were the people who made her something, and without them she was different. She'd held on to them and to that old self tenaciously, though. She clung to it, celebrated it, worshipped it even, instead of constructing a new grown-up life for herself. For years she'd been eating the cold crumbs left over from a great feast, living on them as though they could last her forever.”

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