#ten

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#persistence #success #success

Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#pretend #being

Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work... ↗

— Albert Einstein

#tenacity #work

An appreciative listener is always stimulating. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#style

I was beginning to see, though, that the unknown wasn't always the greatest thing to fear. The people who know you best can be risker, because the words they say and things they think have the potential to be not only scary but true, as well. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#sarah-dessen #true

He turned his dark eyes on the girl whom he had dreamed of so often over the previous months. Beside him, at that very moment of existence, at the heart of torrential downpour, she was exquisitely real, and she, too, seemed content to go on sitting there forever. ↗

— Anna Godbersen

#dreams #love #dreams

We're actors in our lives, pretendin' to be who we want people to think we are. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#pretending #think

There is always a gap between intention and action.. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#action

Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us? ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#character #cornelia-funke #existentialism #words #writers

Did you really want to die?" "No one commits suicide because they want to die." "Then why do they do it?" "Because they want to stop the pain. ↗