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Don't ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it. Ayn Rand
giving-up dont-give-up trying
It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again. Charles Kettering
giving-up soul want
My soul is not my own any more. I cannot live like I want to. I am going to give up films. Brigitte Bardot
giving-up moving god-love
You cease to move into yourself, away from others. You give up your antagonism. You begin to move toward others in love. God moved toward you in gracious, outgoing love, and you move toward others in that same outgoing love. E. Stanley Jones
giving-up cheer heart
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope as old as your despair. In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber. So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, so long are you young. When your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and then only, are you grown old. And then, indeed as the ballad says, you just fade away Douglas MacArthur
giving-up years wrinkles
Years wrinkle the skin. Giving up wrinkles the soul.
giving-up heart numbers
Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear and despair; these are the long, long years that bow the head and turn the growing spirit back to dust. Whatever your years, there is in every being's heart the love of wonder, the undaunted challenge of events, the unfailing childlike appetite for what next, and the joy and the game of life.
giving-up ideas philosopher
There is no such thing as a language, not if a language is anything like what many philosophers and linguists have supposed. Thereis therefore no such thing to be learned, mastered, or born with. We must give up the idea of a clearly defined shared structure which language-users acquire and then apply to cases. Donald Davidson
giving-up drug harder
Giving up my heels was harder than giving up the drugs. Donatella Versace
giving lauren thank
Thank you for giving us back Lauren and Steve, John Rice
giving-up struggle want
Don't ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.
giving pleasure give-me
If you acquit me, you will give me great pleasure. If you condemn me you will do me honour! Benito Mussolini
giving-up dont-give-up trying
It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.
giving-up soul want
My soul is not my own any more. I cannot live like I want to. I am going to give up films.
giving temptation enemy
Every time the enemy throws us off our guard, and we give way to temptation, he gains so much; he weakens us and strengthens himself; when we resist temptation, it strengthens the Saints and weakens the enemy. Brigham Young
giving fuel our-future
Giving is what fuels us. Giving is our future. Blake Mycoskie
giving soldier hard-life
When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a labourer, etc.) try giving him nothing to do. Blaise Pascal
giving literature meaning-of-life
Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life. Elie Wiesel
gates lark none till waking
None but the lark so shrill and clear; / How at heaven's gates she claps her wings, / The morn not waking till she sings. John Lyly