"Sometimes I think that I cheated my own family and my closest friends by giving to audiences so much of the love I might have kept for them. But thatâ€™s the way I was made; I truly don't think I could help it"

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Source : mary martin (1976). “my heart belongs”

Mary Martin

#Thinking Quotes #Giving Quotes #Might Quotes

“One atom in this universe cannot move without dragging the whole world along with it. There cannot be any progress without the whole world following in the wake, and it is becoming every day dearer that the solution of any problem can never be attained on racial, or national, or narrow grounds.”
“The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset's fire.”
“But is there any reason to believe that a woman's spiritual fibre is less sturdy than a man's? Is it not possible for a woman to come to terms with herself if not with the world; to withdraw more and more, as time goes on, her own personality from her productions; to stop childish fears of death and eschew charming rebellions against facts?”

Source : Louise Bogan, Ruth Limmer (1981). “Journey around my room: the autobiography of Louise Bogan : a mosaic”, Viking Pr
“Most civilisation is based on cowardice. It's so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water down the standards which would lead to bravery. You restrain the will. You regulate the appetites. You fence in the horizons. You make a law for every movement. You deny the existence of chaos. You teach even the children to breathe slowly. You tame.”
“I don't think you're human unless you go through some [self-destructi on].”
“Stay hungry to become the best that you can be. Never be satisfied with the level of artistry you've attained. You can always be better.”
“Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.”
“When you are young in this world, you believe that the class of deductive truths about social matters is larger than it turns out to be. [...] I have discovered, to my infinite regret, that most of the serious debates over the basic principles of any political order have an irreducible empirical content.”

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