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Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.

Quote by Amelia Earhart about opinion, contentment

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Quote by Bertolt Brecht about poverty, contentment

To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.

Quote by Stanisław Lem about people, man, contentment

You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.

Quote by Stanisław Lem about irony, contentment

You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.

Quote by Sheilah Graham Westbrook about wish, contentment, world

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Quote by Nadia Boulanger about opinion, essential, love, contentment

Most people won't realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.

Quote by Katherine Anne Porter about writing, people, contentment

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.

Quote by Katherine Anne Porter about experience, truth, contentment

It's a man's world, and you men can have it.

Quote by Katherine Anne Porter about people, man, world, contentment

If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

Quote by James Abram Garfield about opinion, contentment

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

Quote by James Abram Garfield about truth, contentment

It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people.

Quote by Miles Franklin about value, rightness, people, contentment

First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.

Quote by Horatio Nelson about victory, use, contentment

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

Quote by William Hazlitt about faith, victory, contentment

Write what you know is an excellent advice, but I'd also add: write only if you really cannot help it.

Quote by Toma Pavel about writing, advice, help, contentment

Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.

Quote by Margaret Thatcher about politics, being, contentment

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

Quote by Margaret Thatcher about woman, contentment, man

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Quote by Margaret Atwood about rightness, pray, justice, contentment

But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it’s better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you’re fighting for.

Quote by Paulo Coelho about suffering, dream, life, contentment

Life is a gift without price that you have to honor it with what we have more sublime for offering.

Quote by Marius Torok about life, sublime, gifts, contentment