"When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph."

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Source : 'Le Cid' (1637) act 2, sc. 2

Pierre Corneille

#Motivational Quotes #Success Quotes #Fighting Quotes

“Advice is like a doctor's pills; how easily he gives them! how reluctantly he takes them when his turn comes!”
“Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.”
“I've been thinking a lot about next year, which will be the first time in 25 years that I don't have a child at home.”
“I donâ€™t believe in failure; I believe there are setbacks that are put into our path to teach us something and move us in a different direction.”
“And that's all we are Jefferson, all of us on this earth, a piece of drifting wood. until we - each of us, individually- decide to become something else. I am still that piece of drifting wood, and those out there are no better. But you can be better.”

Source : Ernest J. Gaines (2015). “A Lesson Before Dying”, p.191, Serpent's Tail
“The biggest lessons I've learned in life have probably come from a bad situation, from an angry situation, even if I wasn't the one who was angry.”
“Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation. It dies with the body, which is why we are so afraid of death. Death scares the hell out of who you think you are, especially if you think you are this body.”
“I probably sensed the serious formality of the ceremonies and felt what others were feeling then. Looking back, I'd guess that it had opened up a gaping hole in my psyche. In the process of creating art, I might be trying to fill that hole, or to reduce its depth, or to make it feel less hollow. I think that making art could have helped from that moment on.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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