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“From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.”
― Helen Hayes

“The expert at anything was once a beginner.”
― Helen Hayes

“If you rest, you rust.”
― Helen Hayes

“Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.”
― Helen Hayes

“My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.”
― Helen Hayes

“We rely upon the poets, the philosophers, and the playwrights to articulate what most of us can only feel, in joy or sorrow. They illuminate the thoughts for which we only grope; they give us the strength and balm we cannot find in ourselves. Whenever I feel my courage wavering, I rush to them. They give me the wisdom of acceptance, the will and resiliance to push on.”
― Helen Hayes

“Love is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.”
― Helen Hayes

“The story of a love is not important. What is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.”
― Helen Hayes

“From your parents, you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot in front of the other. But when books are opened, you discover that you have wings.”
― Helen Hayes

“Age is not important unless you're a cheese.”
― Helen Hayes

“When books are opened, we discover that we have wings”
― Helen Hayes

“The faster we travel, the less there is to see.”
― Helen Hayes

“We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.”
― Helen Hayes

“Always aim for achievement, and forget about success.”
― Helen Hayes

“The good die young—but not always. The wicked prevail—but not consistently. I am confused by life, and I feel safe within the confines of the theatre.”
― Helen Hayes

“Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end.”
― Helen Hayes

“You rest, you rust.”
― Helen Hayes

“The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.”
― Helen Hayes

“Най-трудните години в живота са между 10 и 70.”
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“I genitori ti insegnano ad amare, ridere e correre. Ma solo entrando in contatto con i libri, si scopre di avere le ali.”
― Helen Hayes

“From your parents you learn love & laughter & how to put one foot in front of the other. But when books are opened, you discover you have wings.”
― Helen Hayes

“every professional was once a beginner”
― Helen Hayes

“Saavutus on tietoisuutta siitä, että olet opiskellut ja työskennellyt lujasti ja tehnyt parhaasi. Menestys on sitä, että muut ylistävät sinua. Tähtää aina saavutukseen ja unohda menestys.”
― Helen Hayes