#l

To even get to the Olympics, I have to qualify for the 2013 World Championships and the standard is high. I know I am always going to be a few points behind the top guys. ↗

— Vanessa Mae

#am #behind #championships #even #few

Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it. ↗

— Vanessa Mae

#behind #great #physical #playing #traditions

Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one's way. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#continue #guided #never #oneself #opinion

When I hit my 20s, I took a chill pill and relaxed because throughout my teens I was churning out an album a year. It was a treadmill of work then recording, promoting and touring. ↗

— Vanessa Mae

#because #chill #churning #hit #i

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it. ↗

— Maurice Maeterlinck

#after #coming #compare #event #goodness

Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me - I quit." ↗

— Bill Maher

#fire #god #i #i quit #man

How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words. ↗

— Maurice Maeterlinck

#express #how #soon #strangely #thing

Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness. ↗

— Maurice Maeterlinck

#contagious #duty #first #gladness #gloom

Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass? ↗

— Maurice Maeterlinck

#event #greater #lives #our #our lives

Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance. ↗

— Maurice Maeterlinck

#disaster #due #governed #happiness #life