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“I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.”

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Albert Einstein, a German-born theoretical physicist, is renowned for his work on relativity and the photoelectric effect. His contributions revolutionized our understanding of the universe and had a profound impact on modern physics. more

“I'm astounded whenever I finish something. Astounded and distressed. My perfectionist instinct should inhibit me from finishing; it should inhibit me from even beginning. But I get distracted and start doing something. What I achieve is not the product of an act of my will but of my will's surrender. I begin because I don't have the strength to think; I finish because I don't have the courage to quit. This book is my cowardice.”

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Author:Fernando Pessoa

“Desperate? So what? I'm desperate, too!" Fenoglio snapped at her. "My story is foundering in misfortune, and these hands here," he said holding them out to her, "don't want to write anymore! I'm afraid of words Meggie! 'Once they were like honey, now they're poison, pure poison! But what is a writer who doesn't love words anymore? What have I come to? This story is devouring me, crushing me, and I'm it's creator!”

Want Writing Said Stories Hands Pure Creator Poison Crush Desperate Misfortunes Honey Devouring

Author:Cornelia Funke

“To let God make us, instead of painfully trying to make ourselves; to follow the path that his love shows us, instead of through conceit or cowardice or mockery choosing another; to trust Him for our strength and fitness as the flowers do, simply giving ourselves back to Him in grateful service,—this is to keep the laws that give us the freedom of the city in which there is no longer any night of bewilderment or ignorance or uncertainty.”

Giving Trying Shows Law Night Cities Path Ignorance Flower Grateful Uncertainty Cowardice His Love Conceit Mockery Bewilderment

Book:A Country Doctor

Source: A Country Doctor

“You are never too old to become younger!”

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Author:Mae West

“If that which you seek, you find not within yourself, you will never find without.”

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Author:Doreen Valiente

“It is a sad thing to want for happiness, but it is a terrible thing to see another groping about blindly for it, when it is almost within the grasp.”

Want Terrible Terrible Things Sad Things

Book:Sister Carrie

Source: Sister Carrie

“Remember, love is all a woman has to give, but it is the only thing which God permits us to carry beyond the grave.”

Giving Remember Love Is Graves Permit

Book:Sister Carrie

Source: Sister Carrie

“Phillipians 4:13 for Pete's sake!”

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Author:Jan Karon

“With friends, if you keep making an effort to reach out and you keep getting hurt, you eventually stop trying. But it's much harder to give up on family. Somewhere deep down you want it to work so badly that you keep making the same mistake over and over again.”

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Book:sTORI Telling

Source: sTORI Telling

“It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That's how the world is going to end.”

People World Two Ends Dies

Book:William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill [and] John Steinbeck

Source: William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill [and] John Steinbeck

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