#greatness

When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness. ↗

— Tecumseh

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Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it. ↗

— Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

#built #exact #exact science #feeling #greatness

Movies such as 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' in 1939 to 'Dave' in 1993 portray Washington leaders as the ultimate Everymen - decent people just like you and me, only thrust onto greatness. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#decent #decent people #goes #greatness #just

The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life. ↗

— Pat Conroy

#hobby #passion #skills #life

After reaching your highest peak, descending the mountain may indeed seem to be the easy path. However, do not lose yourself, for the decline may tarnish or lessen both the memory and reality of that which you have already striven to achieve. ↗

— R.Dalton

#decline #greatness #real-life #life

The only permission, the only validation, and the only opinion that matters in our quest for greatness is our own. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#inspirational #motivational #opinion #permission #success

Somewhere in the background of magnificence lurks the kitchen staff. But a magnificent person only forgets about his origins, never his brunch. ↗

— Bauvard

#greatness #humor #magnificence #meals #funny

He thought others were small; that was his greatness. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #greatness #literature #literature-quotes #philosophy

The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plentitude. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#love #sorrow #love

Milton's Eve! Milton's Eve! ... Milton tried to see the first woman; but Cary, he saw her not ... I would beg to remind him that the first men of the earth were Titans, and that Eve was their mother: from her sprang Saturn, Hyperion, Oceanus; she bore Prometheus" -- "Pagan that you are! what does that signify?" "I say, there were giants on the earth in those days: giants that strove to scale heaven. The first woman's breast that heaved with life on this world yielded the daring which could contend with Omnipotence: the stregth which could bear a thousand years of bondage, -- the vitality which could feed that vulture death through uncounted ages, -- the unexhausted life and uncorrupted excellence, sisters to immortality, which after millenniums of crimes, struggles, and woes, could conceive and bring forth a Messiah. The first woman was heaven-born: vast was the heart whence gushed the well-spring of the blood of nations; and grand the undegenerate head where rested the consort-crown of creation. ... I saw -- I now see -- a woman-Titan: her robe of blue air spreads to the outskirts of the heath, where yonder flock is grazing; a veil white as an avalanche sweeps from hear head to her feet, and arabesques of lighting flame on its borders. Under her breast I see her zone, purple like that horizon: through its blush shines the star of evening. Her steady eyes I cannot picture; they are clear -- they are deep as lakes -- they are lifted and full of worship -- they tremble with the softness of love and the lustre of prayer. Her forehead has the expanse of a cloud, and is paler than the early moon, risen long before dark gathers: she reclines her bosom on the ridge of Stilbro' Moor; her mighty hands are joined beneath it. So kneeling, face to face she speaks with God. That Eve is Jehova's daughter, as Adam was His son. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#empowerment #eve #gender #god #godliness