One must desire something to ...

One must desire something to be alive; perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.
One must desire something to be alive; perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.
 Margaret Deland

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
 George S. Patton
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
 Robert Schuller
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
 Harriet Beecher Stowe

Quotes from the same author

What I object to in Mother is that she wants me to think her thoughts. Apart from the question of hypocrisy, I prefer my own.
 Margaret Deland
There is a bond, it appears, between mother and child which endures as long as they do. It is independent of love; reason cannot weaken it; hate cannot destroy it.
 Margaret Deland
A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.
 Margaret Deland
Absurdity is the one thing love can't stand; it can overlook anything else, -- coldness, or weakness, or viciousness, -- but just be ridiculous and that's the end of it!
 Margaret Deland
When it comes to bombshells, there are few that can be more effective than that small, flat, frail thing, a letter.
 Margaret Deland