“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”
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Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
