"The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer."

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Source : Quoted in Reader's Digest, Nov. 1939 See Calonne 1; Nansen 1; Trollope 3

George Santayana

#Motivational Quotes #Perseverance Quotes #Courage Quotes

“In the mind, in the heart, I was always home. I always imagined, really, going back home.”
“I know family comes first, but shouldn't that mean after breakfast?”
“Every time I ran the mile I was aware of my own weakness, there was some opponent who could give me a hell of a fight, so I never went into a race with a sense of invincibility. I always had that feeling of fragility and nerves which made me run faster.”
“I was in yoga the other day. I was in full lotus position. My chakras were all aligned. My mind is cleared of all clatter and I'm looking out of my third eye and everything that I'm supposed to be doing. It's amazing what comes up, when you sit in that silence. "Mama keeps whites bright like the sunlight, Mama's got the magic of Clorox 2."”
“An actor works with their soul and their thought”
“To a heart formed for friendship and affection the charms of solitude are very short-lived.”
“Men tell us we are womanly when we love but once. Men! They have told us a lot of things to make life comfortable for themselves.”

Source : Blanche Willis Howard (1900). “The Garden of Eden”
“Do you ever rub your eyes and suddenly find you're awake and not asleep, as you'd grown to suspect you were?”

Source : Vincent Price (1959). “I like what I know: a visual autobiography”

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