#ten

Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#ambition #become #career #certainly #course

The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#fiction #film #imaginations #intensely #large

Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#demand #esteem #exist #first #love

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#contend #devours #everything #familiarity #incessantly

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#often #power #revealed #striking #true

Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#nothing #perhaps #politeness #soul #than

Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#colors #existence #like #our #pursue

I've won a championship on every level except the NBA. It's frustrating to have not gotten that in the first two years. ↗

— Steve Blake

#every #except #first #frustrating #gotten

Do little things every day that no one else seems to want to do, be patient, and success will find you. ↗

— Brandi L. Bates

#elizabeth-gilbert #enlightenment #life #success #wisdom

NEVER GIVE UP No matter what is going on Never give up Develop the heart Too much energy in your country Is spent developing the mind Instead of the heart Be compassionate Not just to your friends But to everyone Be compassionate Work for peace In your heart and in the world Work for peace And I say again Never give up No matter what is going on around you Never give up ↗

— Dalai Lama XIV

#tenacity #perseverance