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“People are terrified of other people or difficult projects because they tell themselves that they could fail or be rejected. Failure can lead to sorrow, regret, frustration and annoyance-all healthy feelings without which people couldn't exist.”

People Feelings Difficult Failing Regret Sorrow Healthy Projects Frustration Rejected Terrified Annoyance

Author:Albert Ellis

“Part of our good consists in the endeavor to do sorrows away, and in the power to sustain them when the endeavor fails,--to bear them nobly, and thus help others to bear them as well.”

Wells Helping Failing Bears Sorrow Helping Others Endeavor

Book:The Religion of the Heart: A Manual of Faith and Duty

Source: The Religion of the Heart: A Manual of Faith and Duty

“Half of our sorrows come from setting exalted standards for people and then breaking our hearts when they fail to live up to them.”

People Heart Half Failing Sorrow Standards Expectations Setting Settings Exalted

Author:Alice Hegan Rice

“I like to go to the races at Hollywood Park, but I don't usually win with the horses, so afterward I go to Auntie Em's and drown my sorrows in a red velvet cupcake. It never fails me.”

Winning Failing Sorrow Horse

Author:Russell Mael

“A father is the one friend upon whom we can always rely. In the hour of need, when all else fails, we remember him upon whose knees we sat when children, and who soothed our sorrows; and even though he may be unable to assist us, his mere presence serves to comfort and strengthen us.”

Needs May Children Remember Father Hours Failing Sorrow Comfort Mere Knees Sat Rely Father Son One Friend When All Else Fails

Book:File number 113: and The little old man of Batignolles

Source: File number 113: and The little old man of Batignolles

“How can my old photographs fail to create in me a feeling of emptiness and sorrow? They make me acutely aware that this second deprivation will be final this time.”

Feelings Failing Sorrow Finals Photograph Emptiness Deprivation Old Photographs

Author:Claude Levi-Strauss

“Think that it's fun, that you're guided, and that all is well. Think that there's time, that life is easy, and that the best is yet to come. Think that the reasons that elude you will one day catch up, that the lessons that stumped you will one day bring joy, and that the sorrows that have crippled you will soon give you wings. Think that you're important, that you cannot fail, and that happiness always returns. And think that you're beautiful.”

“People are terrified of other people or difficult projects because they tell themselves that they could fail or be rejected. Failure can lead to sorrow, regret, frustration and annoyance - all healthy, negative feelings without which people couldn't exist. But then they add, "I absolutely must succeed and must be loved by significant persons, and if I don't, it's terrible and I'm no good." Those are irrational beliefs. As long as people keep them, they'll be terrified of life and will put themselves down when they get rejected.”

“I write about the power of trying, because I want to be okay with failing. I write about generosity because I battle selfishness. I write about joy because I know sorrow. I write about faith because I almost lost mine, and I know what it is to be broken and in need of redemption. I write about gratitude because I am thankful - for all of it.”

Knows Want Inspirational Needs Writing Trying Joy Lost Failing Mines Broken Sorrow Gratitude Battle Okay Redemption Generosity Selfishness I Am Thankful

Author:Kristin Armstrong

“In Europe life retreats out of the cold, and exquisite fireside myths have resulted—Balder, Persephone—but [in India] the retreat is from the source of life, the treacherous sun, and no poetry adorns it because disillusionment cannot be beautiful. Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form, and India fails to accommodate them.”

Men May Beautiful Form Joy Desire Sun Failing Source Cold Sorrow Europe India Myth Infinity Retreat Exquisite August Accommodate Disillusionment Treacherous Source Of Life Persephone

Author:E. M. Forster

“I am simultaneously and contradictorily both happy and unhappy: 'to succeed' or 'to fail' have for me only ephemeral, contingent meanings (this does not stop my desires and sorrows from being violent ones); what impels me, secretly and obstinately, is not tactical: I accept and I affirm, irrespective of the true and the false, of success and failure; I am withdrawn from all finality, I live according to chance.”

Doe Desire Chance Accepting Failing Sorrow Succeed Violent Unhappy Success And Failure Ephemeral Finality Tactical

Author:Roland Barthes

“The King beneath the mountains, The King of carven stone, The lord of silver fountains Shall come into his own! His crown shall be upholden, His harp shall be restrung, His halls shall echo golden To songs of yore re-sung. The woods shall wave on mountains. And grass beneath the sun; His wealth shall flow in fountains And the rivers golden run. The streams shall run in gladness, The lakes shall shine and burn, And sorrow fail and sadness At the Mountain-king’s return!”

“God knows the feelings in every human heart. He can soften sorrow and lead when there seems to be no light. Prayer can give guidance and confidence. It reminds us that no one need be alone in this world. If all else fails, remember, God and one other person can be a family.”

Ifs Knows World Needs Giving Humans Heart Persons Feelings Light Seems Remember Prayer Failing This World Failure Sorrow Guidance Human Heart God Knows

Book:The Measure of Our Hearts

Source: The Measure of Our Hearts

“A sacred burden is this life ye bear, Look on it, lift it, bear it solemnly, Stand up and walk beneath it steadfastly; Fail not for sorrow, falter not for sin, But onward, upward, till the goal ye win.”

Life Looks Winning Goal Sin Walks Failing Failure Bears Sorrow Sacred Burden This Life Lifts Onward And Upward

Author:Fanny Kemble

“Character - Some day, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.”

Life Long Made Real Character Process Struggle Failing Week Sorrow Quiet Decided Supreme Temptation Conquer Wrestling Steady Trembling

Author:Phillips Brooks

“The greatest attribute of God is Love. The Tree of Life is located in the very depth of our soul. The most perfect and abundant fruit that grows and ripens is Life giving Love; it is the great healing force in the world. Love never fails to meet every demand of the human heart. The Divine principal of Love may be used to eliminate every sorrow, infirmity, in-harmony, ignorance and all mistakes of mankind. Love is God; eternal, limitless, changeless, infinite. It is the pulse of the world, the heartbeat of the Universe.”