"Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life."

-- James F. Byrnes

#Friendship Quotes #Beautiful Quotes #Self Quotes

“As a struggling actor, youre not looking for parts that define you; youre just looking for work.”
“I do believe we are actors in our own dramas, which, moment by moment, we ourselves write; that we are characters in our own fictions or those devised for us by someone or something else.”
“When you are willing to make sacrifices for a great cause, you will never be alone.”

Source : "Congressional Gold Medal". The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. June 12, 2004.
“Now let us thank th' eternal power, convinced That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction: That oft the cloud that wraps the present hour Serves but to brighten all our future days.”
“Human language has a vocabulary suited to our daily needs and functions: the shape of any human language maps approximately to the needs and activities of our mundane lives. But few would deny that there is another dimension of human existence which transcends the mundane: call it the soul, the spirit: it is that part of the human frame which sees the shimmer of the numinous.”
“One golden day redeems a weary year”

Source : Celia Thaxter (1874). “Poems”, p.65
“I can only draw what I see.”
“But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premier academic libraries. Books written after 1923 quickly disappear into a literary black hole.”

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