"a lot of people have been telling me how brave I am. I've always thought it was a mistake to get a reputation for courage, on the grounds that if you acted bravely once, people would expect you to act courageously again, and you might be having an off day."

-- Starhawk

#Courage Quotes #Mistake Quotes #People Quotes

“Art in its widest sense is the extension of the personality: a host of artificial limbs.”
“Eggnog reminds me of mucus." "Me, too. But in a good way.”
“The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.”
“Memory exercised in a particular way is a natural gift of poetic genius. The poet above all else, is a person who never forgets certain sense impressions which he has experienced and which he can relive again as though with all their original freshness.”
“The only way you can sustain a permanent change is to create a new way of thinking, acting, and being.”

Source : Jennifer Hudson (2012). “I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down”, p.93, Penguin
“No one ever swung too slowly.”
“Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.”
“She has often felt that her outsides were too dull for her insides, that deep within her there was something better than what everyone else could see.”

Source : Myla Goldberg (2005). “Bee Season”, Anchor

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