"In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment."

Carlyle, Thomas on beginning   

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"A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything."

Magazine, Bernard on mistakes
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"Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom."

Therous, Phyllis on mistakes
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"Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes."

Soros, George on mistakes
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"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong."

Pearce, Joseph Chilton on mistakes
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"Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight."

Franklin, Benjamin on anxiety
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"Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where everything is doubtful, and where we may be disappointed, and be blessed in disappointment, why this restless stir and commotion of mind? Can it alter the cause, or unravel the mystery of human events?"

Edwards, Tryon on anxiety
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"Some of your grief you have cured, and lived to survive; but what torments of pain have you endured that haven't as yet arrived."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on anxiety
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"Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is, with thoughts of what may be."

Dryden, John on anxiety
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"You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy."

Manson, Charles on insanity
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"He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity"

Jonson, Ben on adversity
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"Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters."

Hugo, Victor on adversity
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"Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them."

Irving, Washington on adversity
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"There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity."

Irving, Washington on adversity
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"Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune."

James, William on adversity
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"If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them."

Johnson on adversity
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"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

King Jr. Martin Luther on adversity
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"Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?"

Kennedy, Rose F. on adversity
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"Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be."

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous'' on adversity
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"Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is."

Kempis, Thomas on adversity
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"Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?"

Keats, John on adversity
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"We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them."

Jung, Carl on adversity
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"The harder you fall, the higher you bounce."

Horton, Doug on adversity
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"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant."

Horace on adversity
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"As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it."

Horace on adversity
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"In the life of children there are two very clear-cut phases, before and after puberty. Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific habits of order, discipline, and work: after puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious, tyrannical, insufferable. Now it so happens that parents feel the responsibility towards their children precisely during this second period, when it is too late: then of course the stick and violence enter the scene and yield very few results indeed. Why not instead take an interest in the child during the first period?"

Gramsci, Antonio on adolescence
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"Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls."

Hawkins, Anthony Hope on adolescence
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"Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives."

Paglia, Camille on adolescence
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"If it were not for conflict, we would have no need for dreams"

Blum, Donald on adonybus
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"Beyond the limits of our ephemeral vision lies the key to our eternal gifts"

Blum, Donald on adonybus
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"As children mature into young adults they slowly realize that the Gods of their youth were merely well intentioned but flawed people."

Blum, Donald on adonybus
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"A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does."

Hershey, Lewis B on adulthood
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"A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong."

Szasz, Thomas on adulthood
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"Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another."

Unknown, Source on adulthood
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"In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win."

Hoffman, Dustin on adversity   

"Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity."

Holtz, Lou on adversity
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"Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this."

Homer on adversity
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"Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle."

Lowell, James Russell on adversity
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"God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven."

Macdonald, George on adversity
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"Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change."

Malcolm X on adversity
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