Fear is the most prodigious enemy of our soul
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Stop explaining to others, people will only understand from their level of discernment.
Respect is reverence out of love, Fear is reverence out of hate.Choose Wisely
To err is human, to forgive, divine.
[T]he concern of man is not his future but his present, not the world but his soul. We must be just, we must strive, we must engage ourselves with the business of the world for our own sake, because through that, and through contemplation in equal measure, our soul is purified and brought closer to the divine. ... Thought and deed conjoined are crucial. ... The attempt must be made; the outcome is irrelevant. Right action is a pale material reflection of the divine, but reflection it is, nonetheless. Define your goal and exert reason to accomplish it by virtuous action; successs or failure is secondary.
The survival of poor opinions can make a thinker feel as though he is failing humanity.
All you need is a little hope in order cope in times of failure, and be able to try again with a better intelligence for excellence!
Starting over is opportunity informed by failure, which is opportunity made intelligent.
I am likely to fail if I have determined the cost as too high or my intelligence as too low. Yet, if I think about it, the real failure rests in believing either of these to be true.
I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being--forgive me--rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.
Are you able to remain humble and kind when things do not go the way you want or expect? Be kind when you are in pain; be kind even when your life seems to be falling apart around you. Be humble not only when you succeed but also when you fail. Kindness in word and action, and humble in thought and belief. It is important to not only say and do the __ight_ thing, it is important to also think and believe it - which is being genuine in nature of peace embodiment.
Failure is when you stop trying to do something.So, if you want to succeed.Don't stop trying.
The manager of my line told me, You never put anything down except to be read. Every word ever written is written to be read and if some go unread that's only chance, failure, they're like grubs that die without changing.
People are fond of spouting out the old cliché about how Van Gogh never sold a painting in his lifetime. Somehow his example serves to justify to us, decades later, that there is merit in utter failure.Perhaps, but the man did commit suicide. The market for his work took off big-time shortly after his death. Had he decided to stick around another few decades he most likely would__e entered old age quite prosperous. And sadly for failures everywhere, the cliché would have lost a lot of its power.The fact is, the old clichés work for us in abstract terms, but they never work out in real life quite the same way. Life is messy; clichés are clean and tidy.
It's either perfect, or it's the worst thing ever made and everyone is an artistic failure, including myself. (Yay, emotional extremes!)
In the heart of appeasement there's the fear of rejection, and in acts of fear there are mirrors of oppression.
If art's a seismographic project, when that project meets with failure, failure must become the subject too.
Nevertheless, what was made in the hope of transforming the world need not be rejected because it failed to do so _ otherwise, one would also have to throw out a good deal of the greatest painting and poetry of the nineteenth century. An objective political failure can still work as a model of intellectual affirmation or dissent.