idealism, that gaudy coloring ...

idealism, that gaudy coloring matter of passion, fades when it is brought beneath the trenchant white light of knowledge. Ideals, like mountains, are best at a distance.
idealism, that gaudy coloring matter of passion, fades when it is brought beneath the trenchant white light of knowledge. Ideals, like mountains, are best at a distance.
 Ellen Glasgow

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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
We all have different athletic strengths, but I bring a mentality, a physical toughness, an attitude, that they do not have, that helps me with the athleticism.
 Arthur Jones
I believe that there's no improvement if you have an inferiority complex and victim mentality.
 Kim Nam-joon
Nobody with a victim mentality will get anywhere. Ever. They will never succeed.
 Jon Lovitz

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What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.
 Ellen Glasgow
It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.
 Ellen Glasgow
Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.
 Ellen Glasgow
So long as one is able to pose one has still much to learn about suffering.
 Ellen Glasgow
...America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind. We are able to accommodate, at a time, only one national hero; and we demand that that hero shall be uniform and invincible. As a literate people we are preoccupied, neither with the race nor the individual, but with the type. Yesterday, we romanticized the "tough guy;" today, we are romanticizing the underprivileged, tough or tender; tomorrow, we shall begin to romanticize the pure primitive.
 Ellen Glasgow