"We ought as much as we can to endeavour the Perfecting of our Beings, and that we be as happy as possibly we may."

-- Mary Astell

#May Quotes #Endeavour Quotes

“A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself.”
“How hard it must be to keep fighting for a dream when that dream is probably a mirage.”

Source : Amy Hill Hearth (2012). “Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women's Literary Society: A Novel”, p.257, Simon and Schuster
“All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners. Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing and not moving toward excellence.”
“I don't like to speak badly of people.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.”
“I'm a Scandinavian Midwest girl who doesn't always know what's going on in herself emotionally, which is why I make music in order to figure it out.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“The joy of writing drama is putting yourself into different people's heads.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“You will never make it. ‘It’ doesn’t exist for an artist.”

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