"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better."

Beckett, Samuel on failure
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"On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear."

Bhagavad Gita on failure
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"No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on failure
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" there comes a point in your life, when you realise who matters, who never did, who won't anymore, and who always will, so don't worry about people from your past, there's a reason they didn't make it to your future."

Unknown on missing you
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"Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now."

Dylan, Bob on maturity
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"Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth."

Edison, Thomas A. on maturity   

"Where id was, there shall ego be."

Freud, Sigmund on maturity
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"Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself."

Macnaughton, John on maturity
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"One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure."

Stein, Gertrude on maturity   

"Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death."

Laing, R. D. on madness
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"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it."

Lennon, John on madness
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"Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity."

Blake, William on prudence   

"Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy."

Johnson, Samuel on prudence   

"It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves."

Jung, Carl on perspective
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"The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective."

Neuharth, Al on perception
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"We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see."

Peguy, Charles on perception
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"By profession I am a soldier and take pride in that fact. But I am prouder -- infinitely prouder -- to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys. The one has the potentiality of death; the other embodies creation and life. And while the hordes of death are mighty, the battalions of life are mightier still. It is my hope that my son, when I am gone, will remember me not from the battle field but in the home repeating with him our simple daily prayer, Our Father Who Art in Heaven."

Macarthur, Douglas on fathers   

"To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object."

Beauvoir, Simone De on acceptance   

"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for."

Dowd, Maureen on acceptance
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"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on trust
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"“There is but one degree of commitment; total.” "

Arnie Sherr on dedication   

"Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends."

Bach, Richard on farewells
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"Come, let's have one other gaudy night. Call to me. All my sad captains. Fill our bowls once more. Let's mock the midnight bell."

Shakespeare, William on farewells
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"Partir, c'est mourir un peu. (To leave is to die a little.)"

Proverb, French on farewells
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"Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every coming together again a foretaste of the resurrection."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on farewells
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"Absence and death are the same -- only that in death there is no suffering."

Landor, Walter Savage on absence
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"Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell."

Millay, Edna St. Vincent on absence
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"Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer."

Pope, Alexander on absence
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"When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspiration of the breeze, but hints some cause for a lover's apprehension."

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley on absence
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"Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance."

Benjamin, Walter on absence
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"Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it."

Fuller, Thomas on absence
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"Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on absence
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"Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue."

Bennett, William John on gratitude
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"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others."

Cicero, Marcus T. on gratitude
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"If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get."

Clark, Frank A. on gratitude
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"It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?"

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on gratitude
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"Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive."

Gibbon, Edward on gratitude   

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"He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well."

Gracian, Baltasar on gratitude   

"Gratitude is the heart's memory."

Proverb, French on gratitude
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"There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it."

Seneca on gratitude
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