Motivational Quotes of the Day

Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - January 06, 2021
You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.
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Florida Scott-Maxwell, Oprah Magazine, May 2004  
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
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Salman Rushdie (1947 - ), O Magazine, April 2003  
Maybe because it's entirely an artist's eye, patience and skill that makes an image and not his tools.
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Ken Rockwell, Your Camera Does Not Matter, 2005  
What are riches - grandeur - health itself, to the luxury of a pure conscience, the health of the soul; - and what the sufferings of poverty, disappointment, despair - to the anguish of an afflicted one!
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Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764  

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