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- Despair is vinegar from the wine of hope.
- Austin O'Malley
- No matter what we have come through, or how many perils we have safely passed, or how many imperfect and jagged - in some places perhaps irreparably - our life has been, we cannot in our heart of hearts imagine how it could have been different. As we look back on it, it slips in behind us in orderly array, and, with all its mistakes, acquires a sort of eternal fitness, and even, at times, of poetic glamour.
- Randolph Silliman Bourne
- Desire for security keeps littleness little and threatens the great with smallness.
- Author Unknown
- "Where there is a will there is a way," is an old and true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it, and secures its achievement. To think we are able, is almost to be so - to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself.
- Samuel Smiles
- The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so.
- Coventry Patmore
- I was taught that everything is attainable if you are prepared to give up, to sacrifice, to get it. Whatever you want to do, you can do it, if you want it badly enough, and I do believe that. I believe that if I wanted to run a mile is four minutes I could do it. I would have to give up everything else in my life, but I could run a mile in four minutes. I believe that if a man wanted to walk on water and was prepared to give up everything else in life, he could do that
- Stirling Moss
- Desires are the pulses of the soul; as physicians judge by the appetite, so may you by desires.
- Manton
- Desire creates the power.
- Raymond Holliwell
- Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
- Claude A. Helvetius
- The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.
- Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
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