An absolute condition of all ...

An absolute condition of all successful living, whether for an individual or a nation, is the acceptance of death.
An absolute condition of all successful living, whether for an individual or a nation, is the acceptance of death.
 Freya Stark

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
 Dave East
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Once you get the nod, your mentality totally changes. It's like a heavyweight fighter-you win the title and that's it, you don't want to look back and you don't want to change. That's the way I feel and I'm looking to keep the job.?
 Mark Sanchez
Inspirational leaders need to have a winning mentality in order to inspire respect. It is hard to trust in the leadership of someone who is half-hearted about their purpose, or only sporadic in focus or enthusiasm.
 Sebastian Coe

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Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety, so that it may be able to venture unafraid when later emotion comes; the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed. To disapprove, to condemn the human soul shrivels under barren righteousness.
 Freya Stark
Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.
 Freya Stark
It is not badness, it is the absence of goodness, which, in Art as in Life, is so depressing.
 Freya Stark
On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.
 Freya Stark
Style is something peculiar to one person; it expresses one personality and one only; it cannot be shared.
 Freya Stark