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.

Beverly Sills

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You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do... by Beverly Sills

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

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There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. by Beverly Sills

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

motivational positive inspirational

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

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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 is no shortcut to anyplace worth going. by Beverly Sills

There is no shortcut to anyplace worth going.

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Art is the signature of civilizations. by Beverly Sills

Art is the signature of civilizations.

acceptance inspirational art

Opera is music AND drama. I'm prepared to sacrifice the beautiful note for the meaningful sound any time... I can make a pretty tone as well as anyone, but there are times when the drama of a scene demands the opposite of a pretty sound.

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I don't share blame. I don't share credit. And I don't share dess... by Beverly Sills

I don't share blame. I don't share credit. And I don't share desserts.

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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run in... by Beverly Sills

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

getting-older time running

I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me t... by Beverly Sills

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

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Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment a... by Beverly Sills

Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.

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Opera is an extremely disciplined art form, and every excess a singer indulges in has a direct effect on the voice.

direct-effect indulge-in art

Just sing it. Don't prove you can sing it. I know you can, you know you can. So just do it, because if you try to prove it, you'll lose.

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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

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There is something in me-I just can't stand to admit defeat. by Beverly Sills

There is something in me-I just can't stand to admit defeat.

defeat

Don't get me started on critics. by Beverly Sills

Don't get me started on critics.

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I can't be happy every day but I can be cheerful. by Beverly Sills

I can't be happy every day but I can be cheerful.

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When you're in love, the whole world is Jewish. by Beverly Sills

When you're in love, the whole world is Jewish.

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It seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not, more important now was for me to love them

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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.

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