#rage

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world. ↗

— George Eliot

#encourages #excellence #generally #life #shows

It is not important for life to meet your great expectations. What is important is that you hold high expectations of yourself and meet them greatly. ↗

— Roopleen

#courage #determination #goals #inspiration #inspire

I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy. Making people laugh one moment and the next making them feel really uncomfortable. ↗

— Steve Coogan

#been #between #comedy #discomfort #drawn

My father was predisposed to drunken rages. I would hide under the bed. My sister and I were talking just the other day about the terror a drunken man in a rage can create in a child. ↗

— Antonio Villaraigosa

#bed #child #create #day #drunken

I used to break a lot of clubs. I probably was a little different than your average junior player. I did have a lot longer hair and a lot more brown hair. But my demeanor, you know, really from maybe my second, third year on Tour, has gotten a lot more even keel. ↗

— Fred Couples

#break #brown #clubs #demeanor #did

Disappointments in love, even betrayals and losses, serve the soul at the very moment they seem in life to be tragedies. The soul is partly in time and partly in eternity. We might remember the part that resides in eternity when we feel despair over the part that is in life. ↗

— Thomas Moore

#disappointment #love #soul #tragedies #love

Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let's drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again. ↗

— Noel Coward

#country #courage #day #dignity #drink

On even the worst days, when nothing was working at the lab, I knew that at home I would find warmth, peace, companionship, and encouragement. As a consequence, the next day would surely be better. ↗

— James Cronin

#companionship #consequence #day #days #encouragement

Freedom! That was the thought that sung in her heart so that even though the future was so dim, it was iridescent like the mist over the river where the morning sun fell upon it. Freedom! Not only freedom from a bond that irked, and a companionship which depressed her; freedom, not only from the death which had threatened, but freedom from the love that had degraded her; freedom from all spiritual ties, the freedom of a disembodied spirit, and with freedom, courage , and a valiant unconcern for whatever was to come. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#courage

Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#being #could #get #go #hope