“Figures are the most shocking things in the world. The prettiest little squiggles of black looked at in the right light and yet consider the blow they can give you upon the heart.” WorldGivingWritingHeartLittlesLightBlackFiguresBlowShockingPrettiestShocking Things Book:Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells Source: Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells
“Getting ahead in a difficult profession - singing, acting, writing, whatever requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows and unfair reversals. When I think back to those first couple of years in Rome, those endless rejections, without a glimmer of encouragement from anyone, all those failed screen tests, and yet I never let my desire slide away from me, my belief in myself and what I felt I could achieve.” ThinkingWritingYearsFirstsAbleDesireBeliefFeltDifficultActingAchieveCoupleSingingTestsEncouragementBlowProfessionScreensEndlessRejectionRomeUnfairSlidesFaith In YourselfStaggeringAvidReversal Author:Sophia Loren
“I walked slowly out on the beach. A few yards below high-water mark I stopped and read the words again: WRITE YOUR WORRIES ON THE SAND. I let the paper blow away, reached down and picked up a fragment of shell. Kneeling there under the vault of the sky, I wrote several words, one above the other. Then I walked away, and I did not look back. I had written my troubles on the sand. The tide was coming in.” WritingLooksWaterWorryWrittenTroubleSkyPaperMarkAdversityDown AndBlowBeachSandTidesShellsYardsFragmentsVaultsKneeling Author:Arthur Gordon Webster