First our pleasures die – and then our hopes, and then our fears – and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust – and we die too.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYFirst our pleasures die – and then our hopes, and then our fears – and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust – and we die too.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYTo master ourselves before we attempt to master others; to learn to laugh, yet never forget how to weep; and to give the predominance of courage over timidity.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURA story is a living thing, it moves and shifts.
PAT CONROYThe only one you should compare yourself to is you. Your mission is to become better today than you were yesterday.
JOHN C. MAXWELLIf you have fun when you practice, you may also learn more and perform better
BARRY GREENWe accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
TACITUSThere is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.
GEORGE S. PATTONPersistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.
ELON MUSKWhen I was engaged in the struggle for my country, I was very young. My horizons were open.
AHMED BEN BELLALife is too short. I only want to do things that I enjoy, or that I think are good or worth doing.
J. K. ROWLINGBy the time I left ‘Dance Moms,’ I’d made so many friendships.
JOJO SIWAMy mother was my first jealous lover.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThings which matter cost money, and we’ve got to spend the money if we do not want to have generations of parasites rather than generations of productive citizens.
BARBARA JORDANSure, it was terrible and all, but you have to ask yourself: If the whole city was flooded, why couldn’t they just swim to safety?
ZACH BRAFFThe body without soul is no longer at the sacrifice. At the day of death it come to rebirth. The divine spirit will make the soul rejoice seeing the eternity of the world.
RAY KROCNature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs.
FRAN LEBOWITZ