"And have you not received faculties which will enable you to bear all that happens to you? Have you not received greatness of spirit? Have you not received courage? Have you not received endurance?"

-- Epictetus

#Courage Quotes #Greatness Quotes #Endurance Quotes

“My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer.”
“Americans should demand real news, more transparency and more truth.”
“Our conception of 1950s underwear is a lovely vintage aesthetic, but actually, wearing stockings with no elastic and a girdle was heavy duty.”
“While we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us; even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear.”
“If I had a worldview, and I don't know if I do,but if I did, it's one that's intensely humanistic.”

Source : "'It's the fun Apocalypse': Creator Eric Kripke talks 'Supernatural'". Interview with Maureen Ryan, featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com. August 26, 2009.
“I shall also take you forth and carve our names together in a yew tree, haloed with stars...”

Source : Ted Hughes (2011). “Letters of Ted Hughes”, p.6, Faber & Faber
“We are not created equal in talent. But the place where we are least equal is the heart. You can work at a talent, take lessons, but love, love either works or it doesn't. You love someone or you don't. You can't change it. You can't undo it.”
“Seems as unfounded ... to say there isn't a God as to say there is.”

Source : James Agee (2008). “A Death in the Family”, p.142, Penguin

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