"I am not made for despair"

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Source : Lian Hearn (2008). “Across the Nightingale Floor: Tales of the Otori”, p.66, Pan Macmillan

Lian Hearn

#Despair Quotes #Made Quotes

“The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.”

Source : Alma Mahler, Gustav Mahler, Donald Mitchell, Knud Martner (1973). “Gustav Mahler: memories and letters”, John Murray Publishers
“Gravity. It's not just a good idea; it's the law!”
“The minute our correspondence becomes obligatory, there's no point in keeping touch at all.”
“Every time a player goes out to ply his trade he's got to play from the ground up - from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play. Some guys play with their heads. That's O.K. You've got to be smart to be Number One in any business. But more important, you've got to play with you heart - with every fiber of your body. If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second.”
“The strength of Olympism comes to it from that which is simply human, hence worldwide is its essence.”
“The most beautiful landscape cannot hold my fascinated attention as much as nature by the seaside and all that is connected with water.”

Source : Lyonel Feininger, June L. Ness (1974). “Lyonel Feininger”, Praeger Publishers
“You have a divine right to abundance, and if you are anything less than a millionaire, you haven't had your fair share.”
“The central dynamism of Christianity, which rests precisely on a unity through variety.”

Source : Judith Herrin (1989). “The Formation of Christendom”, p.90, Princeton University Press

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