“Happily everafter is a disney myth,
In real life there's only messy evernow.
Master the craft of surfing the mess,
World will bathe in your sapient glow.”
Source: Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations
“[...] insist upon remembering. Because we know that the lessons of yesterday's loss become the fuel for tomorrow's win.”
Source: WOLFPACK: How to Come Together, Unleash Our Power, and Change the Game
“If I'm going to fall, as long as I fall forward I'm still going in the right direction.”
“Sucking can be epic and important when it comes to sex, love, marriage, work, birth, death. That means that learning to accept sucking when the stakes are low will ultimately help us when we suck at the big stuff.”
Source: It's Great to Suck at Something: The Unexpected Joy of Wiping Out and What It Can Teach Us About Patience, Resilience, and the Stuff that Really Matters
“For many of us, our happiest, most joyful stories are from moments when-at the time-we experienced an acute form of failure. Broken bones and embarrassment and chagrin. Then, with time, we turn that putatively negative pathway into a hilarious one. It's just what we do. And it works.”
Source: It's Great to Suck at Something: The Unexpected Joy of Wiping Out and What It Can Teach Us About Patience, Resilience, and the Stuff that Really Matters
“There is no failure. You only lack actions and planning.”
“Every error, every flaw, every failure, however small, is a marginal gain in disguise. This information is regarded not as a threat but as an opportunity.”
Source: Black Box Thinking: Why Some People Never Learn from Their Mistakes - But Some Do
“Failure stories offer more learning than success stories.”
“MOST PEOPLE FAIL NOT BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT CAPABLE OF; BUT BECAUSE OF THE FEAR OF ATTEMPT, ATTEMPT IS WHAT ONE NEEDS TO OVERCOME FAILURE. THIS FEAR LIMITS THEM TO DO WHAT THEY ARE SUPPOSE TO DO, WHAT THEY MUST DO. INSTEAD OF CREATING A WALL OF EXCUSES, BREAK THE BARRIERS OF MIND AND OVERCOME FEAR.”
“Discovery comes from a lot of failures, knowledge, wisdom, faith, and a dose of craziness.”