"She passed these years in a distant corner of her mind. A dry, barren field, out beyond wish and lament, beyond dream and disillusionment. There, the future did not matter. And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and it accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion."

-- Khaled Hosseini

#Life Quotes #Dream Quotes #Mistake Quotes

“Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.”

Source : Mary McLeod Bethune, Audrey Thomas McCluskey, Elaine M. Smith (2001). “Mary McLeod Bethune: Building a Better World : Essays and Selected Documents”, p.60, Indiana University Press
“When I go into the studio - it [words] has to sound the way I heard it in my head. So that's probably one of the biggest things that separates me when I'm working in the studio - just how I hear certain things.”
“Show me someone not full of herself and I'll show you a hungry person.”

Source : "Poem for a Lady Whose Voice I Like" l. 20 (1970)
“Magic teaches us how to lie without guilt.”
“The star of the unconquered will, He rises in my breast, Serene, and resolute, and still, And calm, and self-possessed.”
“Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.”

Source : Hugh Blair (1798). “Sentimental Beauties from the Writings of Dr. Blair: Selected with a View to Refine the Taste, Rectify the Judgment, and Mould the Heart to Virtue”, p.247
“When you write songs, you have to like them yourself first, but then you have to make everyone else like them, because you can force them to play it, but you can't force them to like it.”
“I wrote an article on a new Porsche for 'Automobile Magazine.' I knew the editor, and she asked me to write this article. So I'm more proud of that than anything.”

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