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“And yes, life is mostly boring, and we each go through it feeling ugly or like a failure, but sometimes the sun cuts through a tree line just right, or you get to hold someone's hand for the first time.”

Book:Insomniacs, We

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“Success had put me on the wrong track and I did not know that there is a kind of success worse than failure, and a kind of failure worth all the success in the world. Neither did I know that the distant friendship of Rainer Maria Rilke would one day console me for having seen his lamp burn without knowing that it was signalling me to go and singe my wings against its flame.”

Success Friendship Failure Rilke

Author:Jean Cocteau

“What is crucial is what you think when you fail, using the power of “non-negative thinking”

Failure

Book:Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

Source: Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

“I wish I could ask the future whether I should give up or keep trying. Then again, what if trying, even in the face of certain failure, feels as good as accomplishing? What if it's even better? And here we are again.”

Trying Failure Future Accomplishment

Book:300 Arguments: Essays

Source: 300 Arguments: Essays

“Act in spite of fear and give yourself a chance to live your dreams, it might be the best decision you have ever made. Don’t forget that if you fail, it means you are trying, and if it’s hard it means you are on the right path.”

Motivational Failure Live Your Dreams Be Brave And Fearless

Book:Building The Life You Want

Source: Building The Life You Want

“Any attempt to engineer or plan your own enlightenment is doomed to failure because it will be ego driven. You will only see what you have already decided to look for, and you cannot see what you are not ready or told to look for. So failure and humiliation force you to look where you never would otherwise. . . . So we must stumble and fall, I'm sorry to say.”

Hope Loss Failure Limits Enlightenment

Book:Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

Source: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

“Embrace your possibilities, not your potential failures. You get what you expect.”

Motivation Failure Potential Networking Likability Likable

Book:11 Laws of Likability

Source: 11 Laws of Likability

“Every failure makes me to work twice as hard than me giving up.”

Philosophy Success Quotes Hard Work Failure Giving Up Ambitions Celebrity Quotes

Author:De philosopher DJ Kyos

“Man on his own is impotent and because of this impotence and the idea that he can do everything, there is a dilemma, the predicament of the human mind.”

Pain Failure Surrender Agony Let Go

Book:Let go!: A darshan diary

Source: Let go!: A darshan diary

“Be the president of your own world, the master of your own creativity. Life will be sweeter than sweets.”

Happiness Leadership Creativity Self Empowerment

Author:Luckson T Mabade

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