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“ 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.” —Sophia Loren (b. 1934), actress “Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!” —Sean O'Casey (1884-1964), dramatist “There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.” —Federico Fellini (1920-1993), film maker “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” —Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931), poet, novelist “True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.” —Albert Einstein (1875-1955), theoretical physicist, philosopher “We shall not cease from exploration; And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started, and know the place for the first time.” —T.S. Eliot “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you too, can become great. ” —Mark Twain “The heart has reason which reason cannot understand.” —Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), mathematician, philosopher, physicist “The sacredness, if there is any, is all in yourself and not in the place.” —Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), philosopher, writer, naturalist “Only connect.” —E.M. Forster (1879-1970), novelist, critic “Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.” —Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), Prime Minsiter of the United Kindom “If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.” —Alec Bourne “Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.” —Buddha “A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist.” —Sophocles (497-406 B.C.), Greek tragedian “The Soul selects her own Society— Then shuts the Door—” —Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), poet “Your soul...is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.” —Marcel Proust (1871-1922), novelist “I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.” —Mario Cuomo (b. 1932), Governor of New York, U.S. “It is only with the heart that one sees rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.” —Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944), aviator, writer
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