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«Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever searching and striving to become the best they possibly can. If we seek the average level we cannot hope to achieve a high level of success. Our only hope is to avoid being a failure.»
«Sometimes what we call love is just a settling of old scores, or a seeking of forbidden pain, or a circuitous path to the kingdom of cruelty, or she may simply have confused lack of capital with heroism while searching for rescue without knowing from what.»
«There is no fury like a woman searching for a new lover»
Author: Cyril Connolly | About: Love | Keywords: furies, fury, searching
«Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.»
«Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.»
«The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.»
«Reputations are made by searching for things that can't be done and doing them»
Author: Frank Tyger | About: Reputation | Keywords: doing, done, made, Reputations, searching
«The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.»
«Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.»
«No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time with a steady eye.»

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