"The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed."

-- Edwin Percy Whipple

#Success Quotes #Succeed Quotes #Failure In Life Quotes

“It's terrible for the culture of music. Like anything that is purely economic, it ignores the most important component.”
“The border between the natural and the supernatural, religion and philosophy, may not always be clear. But there are lines, and we should know and accept which side of it we are on.”
“Be friendly but not chummy with your lawyers.”
“The original sin of Republicans is greed. Everyone understands greed. Everybody wants to get theirs. The original sin of Democrats is pity. Greed is more attractive, and a better motivator, than pity.”
“Write and people will come to read. Write and people will heed to your words and share them with others. Not all may relate, but wait, and those that were meant to see it eventually will find it, for truth waits to be found. It searches for no one.”
“God is not a genie in a bottle, and your wish is not His command. His command better be your wish.”
“And in that moment I possessed and lost the whole world and everything in it and was left with the feeling and the knowledge, which is love, that no matter how we give ourselves we always end up losing. That to love is to lose, the moment we agree to the bargain. And that, being human, we keep standing there wanting to lose more....”

Source : Ann Rinaldi (2011). “Time Enough for Drums”, p.125, Laurel Leaf
“Some sorrows are but footprints in the snow, which the genial sun effaces, or, if it does not wholly efface, changes into dimples.”

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