"What people call success is only preparation for the next failure."

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Source : August Strindberg (1983). “Strindberg, Five Plays”, p.243, Univ of California Press

August Strindberg

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“Action is the music of our life. Like music, it starts from a pause of leisure, a silence of activity which our initiative attacks; then it develops according to its inner logic, passes its climax, seeks its cadence, ends, and restores silence, leisure again. Action and leisure are thus interdependent; echoing and recalling each other, so that action enlivens leisure with its memories and anticipations, and leisure expands and raises action beyond its mere immediate self and gives it a permanent meaning.”

Source : Salvador de Madariaga (1954). “Essays with a Purpose”
“If the Soul sees, after death , what passes on this earth , and watches over the welfare of those it loves, then must its greatest happiness consist in seeing the current of its beneficent influences widening out from age to age, as rivulets widen into rivers, and aiding to shape the destinies of individuals, families, States, the World; and its bitterest punishment, in seeing its evil influences causing mischief and misery , and cursing and afflicting men, long after the frame it dwelt in has become dust, and when both name and memory are forgotten.”
“I always had a weight issue since I was a young kid.”
“A prudent speculator never argues with the tape. Markets are never wrong, opinions often are.”
“A day away from Tallulah is like a month in the country.”

Source : Howard Dietz (1974). “Dancing in the dark”
“Thank you guys for believing in my ability and supporting me in my Olympic journey.”
“And in a small house five miles away was a man who held my mud-encrusted charm bracelet out to his wife. Look what I found at the old industrial park," he said. "A construction guy said they were bulldozing the whole lot. They're afraid of sink holes like that one that swallowed the cars." His wife poured him some water from the sink as he fingered the tiny bike and the ballet shoe, the flower basket and the thimble. He held out the muddy bracelet as she set down his glass. This little girl's grown up by now," she said. Almost. Not quite. I wish you all a long and happy life.”
“It's not that Michelle Obama is trying to conceal her true feelings, it's that she does not want to be a political liability to her husband.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org

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