Everything in life, except her kids, made her impatient. She had tried to do a million things. She'd wanted to be a documentary filmmaker and then a painter and then a tiny-ceramic-figure maker. None of it panned out. She'd be full of enthusiasm at first, full of big ideas and energy and drive, but it would all gradually evaporate and disappear. She could never maintain the momentum or the concentration or the confidence she needed to get anything done. Miriam Toews
The biggest wall you have to climb is the one you build in your mind: Never let your mind talk you out of your dreams, trick you into giving up. Never let your mind become the greatest obstacle to success. To get your mind on...
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Roy T. Bennett
Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction.
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Germany Kent
Success and failure are relative categories. Therefore, do not exult in victory and do not despair after defeat. Accept the changes in life placidly, knowing that autumn and winter come after summer.
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Eraldo Banovac
Reconnect with the highest truth and ignite the divine sparks in you.
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Amit Ray
Sometimes we have to soak ourselves in the tears and fears of the past to water our future gardens.
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Suzy Kassem
More Quotes By Miriam Toews
The greatest joys in life are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in our quiet hopes and labors for others.
We must seek together to address the good aspirations of people everywhere, for we are bound together through great commonality.
A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress.
Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.
Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.
