"Pain is not a punishment. And pleasure is not a reward. You could argue that failure is not punishment and Success is not reward. They're just failure and success. You can choose how you respond."

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Source : Sarah Lewis (2014). “The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

Sarah Lewis

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“I'm sure I've been a toad, one time or another. With bats, weasels, worms...I rejoice in the kinship. Even the caterpillar I can love, and the various vermin.”
“I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. Yet these elegies are to this generation in no sense conciliatory. They may be to the next. All a poet can do today is warn. That is why the true Poets must be truthful.”
“He, who loves praise, loves temptation.”
“Maternity is a glorious thing, since all mankind has been conceived, born, and nourished of women. All human laws should encourage the multiplication of families.”
“The human race is already social, and the smartphone has everything needed to enable them to act on their social needs.”
“Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground.”
“Any job is a job. If you have to be doing something, then you're probably not enjoying it.”

Source : Interview with Aaron Franco, www.avclub.com. March 19, 2008.
“...many of the officials, courtiers, and priests, representing the upper class of Egyptian society but not the royalty, looked strikingly like modern Europeans, especially long-headed ones”

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