#your

Well, one hopes that if you're really related to the core of your particular culture, you have profound commitments to it, and that you are aware of how much you can strain it before you do violence to its essential nature. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#before #commitments #core #culture #essential

I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it. ↗

— Dennis Potter

#i #obligation #talent #use #you

Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now. ↗

— P. T. Barnum

#done #early #hour #just #late

It's one thing to have a relationship, to lay your hands on it, and another to make it continue and last. That's something I haven't talked about much in my comic strips, and it's certainly something I'm interested in. ↗

— Lynda Barry

#another #certainly #comic #comic strips #continue

You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens. ↗

— Ethel Barrymore

#anything #broaden #day #enjoy #happens

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#efficient #failings #know #know yourself #only

What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them. ↗

— Augusto Roa Bastos

#forgets #happens #memory #remembers #them

Creating ways to be happy is your life's work, a challenge that won't end until you die. ↗

— Martha Beck

#challenge #creating #die #end #happy

One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#based #forgotten #good #good reason #happened

Be careful how you spend your time: Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of. ↗

— Richard Baxter

#careful #how #know #must #nothing