Quotes of Cicely Tyson

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Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch, what make you go beyond the norm.

- Cicely Tyson

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“ If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace. ”

- Leo Tolstoy

“ Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts. ”

- Richard Crawshaw

“ Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything. ”

- Napoleon Hill

“ Your environment will eat your goals and plans for breakfast. ”

- Steve Pavlina

“ Where wild souls meet wild lovers is where hurricanes are made. ”

- ventum

“ Your best creative assets do not occur unless you do a mental shift. You have to be in a positive frame of mind because inspiration is fleeting. I walk to work for inspiration and to clear my mind. ”

- Ron Ben Israel

“ I hope she'll be a fool that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. ”

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

“ Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. ”

- Pablo Picasso

“ Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. ”

- Erica Jong

“ Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. ”

- Confucius

“ If you are too busy to pray, you are busier than God wants you to be. ”

- Wanda E. Brunstetter

“ I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it’s just too much. The current’s too strong. They’ve got to let go, drift apart. ”

- Kazuo Ishiguro

“ Choose being kind over being right, and you’ll be right every time. ”

- Richard Carlson

“ True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the wellbeing of one's companion. ”

- Gordon B. Hinckley

“ True love is taking the risk that it won’t be a happily. ever. after. True love is joining hands with the man who loves you for who you are, and saying, “I’m not afraid to believe in you.” ”

- Cara Lockwood

“ How do I say “I miss you” in a way that will make your heart ache as mine does? ”

- Unknown

“ The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why ”

- Mark Twain

“ The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all. ”

- Leo Rosten

“ I want to stand in front Allah proud of how well I treated back in dunya. ”

- Ismaaciil C. Ubax

“ We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust. ”

- David Levithan

“ Life is tough, darling, but so are you. ”

- Stephanie Bennett Henry

“ The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience. ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth. ”

- Jodi Picoult

“ Battered was my heart in the deep search, branded with cracks like slices of silver birch. An ignorant dream, a wish, just fool's gold that was the tale that love had sold. ”

- Sara Secora

“ A lack of clarity could put the brakes on any journey to success. ”

- Steve Maraboli