"A mermaid has not an immortal soul, nor can she obtain one unless she wins the love of a human being. On the power of another hangs her eternal destiny."

-- Hans Christian Andersen

#Winning Quotes #Destiny Quotes #Mermaid Quotes

“But what is worse, smelling the roast and not feasting, or not smelling the roast at all?”
“There is perhaps no sort of self more subject to dangerous egotism than that which deludes itself with the notion that it is not a self at all, but something else. It is well to beware of persons who believe that the cause, the mission, the philanthropy, the hero, or whatever it may be that they strive for, is outside of themselves, so that they feel a certain irresponsibility, and are likely to do things which they would recognize as wrong if done in behalf of an acknowledged self.”
“In randori we learn employ the principle of maximum efficiency even when we could easily overpower an opponent.”
“Today's comics use four-letter words as a shortcut to thinking. They're shooting for that big laugh and it becomes a panic thing, using four-letter words to shock people.”
“Whatsoever is worthy of their love is worth their anger.”

Source : Sir John Denham (1709). “Poems and Translations: With the Sophy, a Tragedy”, p.301
“Jet lag is for amateurs.”
“I make clothes for a woman who is not swayed by what her husband thinks.”

Source : "The Misfit" by Judith Thurman, www.newyorker.com. July 04, 2005.
“Occasionally.. .what you have to do is go back to the beginning and see everything in a new way.”

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