#hard

There are no prizes for defying yourself. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#cosmic-ordering #law-of-attraction #mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money

No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American. ↗

— Anthony Bourdain

#dreams

He looked as if he'd got a lot of pleasure out of going ten rounds with your grandmother and making sure she went the whole distance. ↗

— Richard Brautigan

#noir #dreams

I spent a restless night plagued with excruciating dreams of Adam sucking me off in front of Matt, Jay and my mother. Matt and Jay weren’t paying much attention, being too busy excavating each other’s tonsils with their tongues, but Mum was staring with folded arms and narrowed eyes, occasionally muttering, “Oh, for heaven’s sake, Timothy—show a little enthusiasm! ↗

— J.L. Merrow

#business

We must strive for literacy and education that teach us to never quit questioning and probing at the assumptions of the day. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#fighting #hard-work #knowledge #literacy #never-give-up

I’ve only been to jail a few times, but in several different countries, at that. No, I've only been to jail a few times. But I still claim the ability to write a "serious" novel. ↗

— Roman Payne

#growth #hard-times #hardship #jail #jailbird

The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge. ↗

— Cleveland Amory

#expensive #foreign #hard #husband #like

And hard times are good in their own way, too. Because the only way you can achieve true happiness is if you experience true sadness as well. It's all about light and shade. Balance. ↗

— Gabrielle Williams

#hard-times #inspiracional #experience

If they respect the craft and what we're doing and they bring something to the table and they work hard, I don't care what you do as your side job or as your day job. ↗

— Anthony Anderson

#care #craft #day #doing #hard

That's the hardest thing of all--never to become cynical, never to lose faith, never to become indifferent. ↗

— Sergei Lukyanenko

#difficult #faith #hard #indifference #faith