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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
    "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: adventuring, death, time
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    Margaret Atwood
    “I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever is happening to me is my own fault. I have done something wrong, something so huge I can't even see it, something that's drowning me. I am inadequate and stupid, without worth. I might as well be dead.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
    tags: depression, self-worth
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    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert
    tags: self-worth
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “Staying silent is like a slow growing cancer to the soul and a trait of a true coward. There is nothing intelligent about not standing up for yourself. You may not win every battle. However, everyone will at least know what you stood for—YOU.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: assertive, assertiveness, bravery, choices, confidence, courage, coward, daughter-of-god, dignity, disrespect, enemies, fearful, integrity, low-self-esteem, retreat, scores, self-esteem, self-respect, self-worth, silence, women
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    Joel Osteen
    “You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It wont happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life.”
    ― Joel Osteen, Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
    tags: disappointment, failure, moving-on
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    Maya Angelou
    “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: adversity, character, failure, perseverance
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    Samuel Beckett
    “All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
    ― Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho
    tags: failure, perseverance
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    Coco Chanel
    “Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.”
    ― Coco Chanel, Believing in Ourselves: The Wisdom of Women
    tags: attitudes, belief, confidence, failure, self-confidence, success
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: failure, perseverance, tenacity
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    J.M. Barrie
    “We are all failures- at least the best of us are.”
    ― J.M. Barrie
    tags: failure, learning, moving-on, self-criticism, success
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    Jules Verne
    “Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.”
    ― Jules Verne, A Journey to the Center of the Earth
    tags: experience, failure, science
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    Robert T. Kiyosaki
    “Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.”
    ― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
    tags: failure, life, success
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    Sabaa Tahir
    “Failure doesn't define you. It's what you do after you fail that determines whether you are a leader or a waste of perfectly good air.”
    ― Sabaa Tahir, A Torch Against the Night
    tags: define, failure, leader, waste
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    Richard Yates
    “if you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail… it takes back bone to lead the life you want”
    ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road
    tags: failure
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    Brandon Sanderson
    “You tried to help the people of the market. You mostly failed. This is life. The longer you live, the more you fail. Failure is the mark of a life well lived. In turn, the only way to live without failure is to be of no use to anyone. Trust me, I've practiced”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer
    tags: failure, inspirational
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    Zig Ziglar
    “it's not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.”
    ― Zig Ziglar
    tags: failure, recovery
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  • #17
    “But instead of spending our lives running towards our dreams, we are often running away from a fear of failure or a fear of criticism.”
    ― Eric Wright
    tags: criticism, dreams, failure, life
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    Antonio Machado
    “Last night as I was sleeping, I dreamt --
    O, marvelous error --
    That there was a beehive here inside my heart
    And the golden bees were making white combs
    And sweet honey from all my failures.”
    ― Antonio Machado
    tags: bee, dream, failure, honey, success
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    Johnny Cash
    “You build on failure. You use it as a stepping sone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.”
    ― Johnny Cash
    tags: failure
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    Richard Matheson
    “Failures plagued me. Things I had omitted or ignored, neglected. What I should have given and hadn’t. I felt the biting pang of every unfulfillment.”
    ― Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come
    tags: death, failure, life
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  • #21
    Mackenzi Lee
    “It is not a failure to readjust my sails to fit the waters I find myself in.”
    ― Mackenzi Lee, The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy
    tags: adaptation, failure, success
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    Sivananda Saraswati
    “There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.”
    ― Swami Sivananda
    tags: failure, inspirational, patience
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  • #23
    Robert M. Pirsig
    “The TV scientist who mutters sadly, "The experiment is a failure; we have failed to achieve what we had hoped for," is suffering mainly from a bad script writer. An experiment is never a failure solely because it fails to achieve predicted results. An experiment is a failure only when it also fails adequately to test the hypothesis in question, when the data it produces don't prove anything one way or another.”
    ― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
    tags: experimentation, failure, hypothesis, results, science, scientific-method
    44 likes



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