"may I be I is the only prayer--not may I be great or good or beautiful or wise or strong."

-- e. e. cummings

#Life Quotes #Beautiful Quotes #Wise Quotes

“We almost always live outside ourselves, and life itself is a continual dispersion. But it's towards ourselves that we tend, as towards a centre around which, like planets, we trace absurd and distant ellipses.”
“The world is yours, as well as ours, but in the last analysis, it is yours. Young people, full of vigour and vitality, are in the bloom of life, like the sun at eight or nine in the morning. Our hope is placed on you...The world belongs to you. China's future belongs to you.”
“Men are vain; but they won't mind women working so long as they get smaller wages for the same job.”
“Disasters occur organically in my work, in that that's the way my thinking tends, more than that's what I start out by planning. I'm sort of a catastrophist.”

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“A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman.”
“You just be honest about who you are, and if you dont end up with any friends, then good for you.”
“I wanted to be an author as far back as I can remember, mixed with occasional bouts of wanting to be a werewolf when I grew up. But mostly, when I daydreamed, it was about being an author.”
“I have so often been asked the question: "But how did you come to think of The Scarlet Pimpernel?" And my answer has always been: "It was God's will that I should." And to you moderns, who perhaps do not believe as I do, I will say, "In the chain of my life, there were so many links, all of which tended towards bringing me to the fulfillment of my destiny.”

Source : "Links in the Chain of Life" by Emma Orczy, (Ch. 8), 1947.

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