"What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance of grace, justice, and beauty to this world."

-- Paul Hawken

#Encouragement Quotes #Odds Quotes #Order Quotes

“My advice for aspiring writers is go to New York. And if you canâ€™t go to New York, go to the place that represents New York to you, where the standards for writing are high, there are other people who share your dreams, and where you can talk, talk, talk about your interests. Writing books begins in talking about it, like most human projects, and in being close to those who have already done what you propose to do.”
“Productivity and efficiency can be achieved only step by step with sustained hard work, relentless attention to details and insistence on the highest standards of quality and performance.”
“Speak with the speech of the world; think with the thoughts of the few.”

Source : John Hay (1984). “John Hay's Pike County: two tales and seven ballads”
“Sometimes you don't know it. What you have been waiting your whole life for. You don't know until it is happening.”

Source : Laura Dave (2011). “The First Husband: A Novel”, p.57, Penguin
“The world is only a mirror. You will only see in the world what you're prepared to see in yourself-nothing more and nothing less.”

Source : Robert Holden (2011). “Happiness Now!: Timeless Wisdom for Feeling Good Fast”, p.6, Hay House, Inc
“But I have learned a thing or two; I know as sure as fate, when we lock up our lives for wealth, the gold key comes too late.”

Source : WILL CARLETON (1895). “RHYMES OF OUR PLANET”
“Holding anger is a poison...It eats you from inside...We think that by hating someone we hurt them...But hatred is a curved blade...and the harm we do to others...we also do to ourselves.”
“If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure.”

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