"After twenty annual visits, I am still surprised each time I return to see this giant asparagus bed of alabaster and rose and green skyscrapers."

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Source : Cecil Beaton (1955). “I take great pleasure”

Cecil Beaton

#Rose Quotes #Bed Quotes #Twenties Quotes

“I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at 4:00 in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today.”
“Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.”

Source : Og Mandino (2010). “A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By”, p.60, Bantam
“There are no little things.”
“I really wish people - maybe it's naive - wish people had priorities and were willing to be artistic patrons.”
“It's always push and pull with a record company.”
“Dance as though no one is watching. Love as though you've never been hurt. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth.”
“Challenges met are the scariest but are sometimes the most worthwhile.”

Source : Twitter post from Sep 04, 2016
“For it has been said, all that a man hath will he give for his life; and while all contribute of their substance the soldier puts his life at stake, and often yields it up in his country's cause. The highest merit, then is due to the soldier.”

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