The grain-fields went up the hillsides. Now as we went higher there was a wind blowing the grain.
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Ernest Hemingway
The first step to having something in your life is to see yourself having it in your mind.
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Danielle Barone
Before you begin a thing remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead.... You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.
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Kathleen Norris
All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only upon the full use of our creative imagination.
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Ruth Ross
If we have not achieved our early dreams we must either find new ones or see what we can salvage from the old. If we have accomplished what we set out to do in our youth we need not weep like Alexander the Great that...
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Rosalynn Carter
More Quotes By Alice James
One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
If I can get on to my sofa and occupy myself for four hours, at intervals through the day, scribbling my notes, and able to read the books that belong to me, in that they clarify the density, and shape the formless mass within, life...
The fact is, I have been dead so long and it has been simply such a grim shoving of the hours behind me…since the hideous summer of ’78, when I went down to the deep sea, its dark waters closed over me and I knew...
In looking back now, I see how it began in my childhood, altho’ I was not conscious of the necessity until ’67 or ’68 when I broke down first, acutely, and had violent turns of hysteria. As I lay prostrate after the storm with my...
It is so comical to hear oneself called old even at ninety I suppose!
