Beverly Sills Quotes

I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.

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I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity.. I didn't feel better or stronger than anyone else but it seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not more important now was for me to love them. Feeling that way turns your whole life around living becomes the act of giving.

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Beauty was darkness till she came. 
 Then paint her eyes, whose active light 
 Shall make the former shadows bright, 
 And with their every beam supply 
 New day, to draw her picture by.

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You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light.

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A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down.

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There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

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My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1: 19-20]