Famous Quotes about life

Rodolfo Costa quote #10 from Advice My Parents Gave Me: and Other Lessons I Learned from My Mistakes

For some people their fear to lose is greater than their desire to succeed so they end up doing nothing and their dreams become impossible.
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Cormac McCarthy quote #173 from The Crossing

If a dream can tell the future it can also thwart that future. For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come. He is bound to no one that the world unfold just so upon its course and those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer Where the dreamer and his dream
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Gustave Flaubert quote #183 from November

At other times at the edge of a wood especially at dusk the trees themselves would assume strange shapes sometimes they were arms rising heavenwards or else the trunk would twist and turn like a body being bent by the wind. At night when I woke up and the moon and the stars were out I would see in the sky things that filled me simultaneously with dread and longing. I remember that once one Christmas Eve I saw a great naked women standing erect with rolling eyes she must have been a hundred feet high but along she drifted growing ever longer and ever thinner and finally fell apart each limb remaining separate with the head floating away first as the rest of her body continued to waver
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Thomas Aquinas famous quote #218

Give us O Lord a steadfast heart which no unworthy affection may drag downwards give us an unconquered heart which no tribulation can wear out give us an upright heart which no unworthy purpose may tempt aside. Bestow upon us also O Lord our God understanding to know you diligence to seek you wisdom to find you and a faithfulness that may finally embrace you through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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Charlotte Eriksson famous quote #150

So many people will tell you no and you need to find something you believe in so hard that you just smile and tell them watch me. Learn to take rejection as motivation to prove people wrong. Be unstoppable. Refuse to give up no matter what. Its the best skill you can ever learn.
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