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All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
The day you believe __ou know everything_ you have just experienced the biggest failure of your life! Recovery might be difficult!
If you believe you will fail, there is no hope for you. You will.Rid yourself of this I-am-a-poor-worm-in-the-dust idea. You are a god, with infinite capabilities. "All things are ready if the mind be so." The eagle looks the cloudless sun in the face.
Things that will someday work out well start out well. Things that will never work start out bad and stay that way.
Stop judging your life only by the failures," he whispered."What should I do?" she whispered. "I'm always going to fail.""We all do," he said softly, his voice closer now. "We all fail. But none of us fail all the time.
She leaves, carrying a biodegradable carrier bag that reads THE SUICIDE SHOP on one side, and on the other: HAS YOUR LIFE BEEN A FAILURE? LET__ MAKE YOUR DEATH A SUCCESS!
Very little is needed for everything to be upset and ruined, only a slight lapse in reason.
We must allow ourselves to think, we must dare to think, even though we fail. It is in the nature of things that we always fail, because we suddenly find it impossible to order our thoughts, because the process of thinking requires us to consider every thought there is, every possible thought. Fundamentally we have always failed, like all the others, whoever they were, even the greatest minds. At some point, they suddenly failed and their system collapsed, as is proved by their writings, which we admire because they venture farthest into failure. To think is to fail, I thought.
If my attitude be on of fear, not faith, about the one who has disappointed me; if I say __ust what I expected,_ if a fall occurs, then I know nothing of Calvary Love.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.__amuel Beckett, Worstward Ho (1983)
She had always loved the stars. But tonight, she felt as if they were watching her, waiting for her to fail.
The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures. The person who knows only success can be more oblivious to all the pitfalls.
Despite the way she rallied, the haunted look in her eyes was enough to break him, as lost and lonely as an abandoned child__.
If giving up is to fail, then to hell with give up!
When you__e still too young to shave, optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.
And I felt like such a failure. I thought: I can't even do mental illness properly.
The Elizabethan Failure may engage in battle, but the blow that fells him will most likely be an accidental one. And the cup of water so gallantly offered will, at the last moment, slip from his weak grasp, thus rendering two people thirsty instead of one.