"It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes."

Baxter, Anne on failure
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"One must be aware that one is continually being tested in what one wishes most in order to make clear whether one's heart is on earth or in heaven."

Khan, Pir Vilayat on challenges
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"It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation."

Khan, Pir Vilayat on action   

"Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring."

Proverb, Chinese on happiness   

"For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something else."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on compensation
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"The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on dependence
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"I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed."

Kazantzakis, Nikos on power
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"By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired."

Kazantzakis, Nikos on belief
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"With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity."

Nair, Keshavan on courage
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"Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought."

Szent-Gyorgyi, Albert on discovery
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"A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind."

Szent-Gyorgyi, Albert on discovery
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"If we make a couple of discoveries here and there we need not believe things will go on like this for ever. Just as we hit water when we dig in the earth, so we discover the incomprehensible sooner or later."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on discovery
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"Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on fallibility
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"Both men and women are fallible. The difference is, women know it."

Bron, Eleanor on fallibility
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"If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that."

Miller, Arthur on fallibility   

"It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on fallibility
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"In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin."

Repplier, Agnes on fallibility   

"Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him."

Beecher, Henry Ward on attitude
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"Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude."

Bentley, Timothy on attitude
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"Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it."

Berlin, Irving on attitude
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"Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force."

Blandi, Tom on attitude
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"You are more likely to act yourself into feelings, than feel yourself into action."

Brunner, Dr. Jerome on attitude
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"There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control."

Buscaglia, Leo on attitude
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"If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears."

Clark, Glenn on attitude
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"You got to sing like you don't need the money; Love like you'll never get hurt; You got to dance like nobody's watchin'; It's gotta come from the heart if you want it to work."

Clark, Susanna on attitude
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"It's not the situation. It's your reaction to the situation."

Conklin, Robert on attitude
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"Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life."

Desai, Morarji on attitude
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"Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!"

Wilson, Mclandburgh on attitude
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"A positive attitude can really make dreams come true -- it did for me."

Garrison, Zina on attitude
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"The most vital thing in a man's life is his mental attitude."

Unknown, Source on attitude   

"Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow -- that is patience."

Unknown, Source on patience
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"Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill."

Horton, Doug on perfection   

"Perfect works are rare, because they must be produced at the happy moment when taste and genius unite; and this rare conjuncture, like that of certain planets, appears to occur only after the revolution of several cycles, and only lasts for an instant."

Chateaubriand, Vicomte De on perfection   

"The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth."

Wilde, Oscar on perfection
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"All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death."

Wilde, Oscar on trials
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"Blessed is that man who has found his work."

Hubbard, Elbert on work
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"Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway."

Coallier, Steven on life
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"There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can."

Dyke, Henry Van on life
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"In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray."

Proverb, German on life
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"One must either be the hammer or the anvil."

Proverb, German on fate
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