"Only one thing matters: learning to be the loser."

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Emile M. Cioran

#Matter Quotes #Loser Quotes

“Louis Armstrong could only happen once - for ever and ever. I, for one, appreciate the ride.”
“It is believed by experienced doctors that the heat which oozes out of the hand, on being applied to the sick, is highly salutary. It has often appeared, while I have been soothing my patients, as if there was a singular property in my hands to pull and draw away from the affected parts aches and diverse impurities, by laying my hand upon the place, and extending my fingers toward it. Thus it is known to some of the learned that health may be implanted in the sick by certain gestures, and by contact, as some diseases may be communicated from one to another.”
“I will kneel and strike my breast, then touch the dust with my forehead; I will, I will. Only do not forsake me, oh god of beauty.”
“Dropping out of school is the ultimately caused by discrimination against young people in schools.”
“It not infrequently happens that persons without any other special qualification than the drama of their lives are precipitated into important political positions.”

Source : Charles Edward Merriam (1945). “Systematic Politics”
“Most of my learning and philosophy regarding coaching basketball was developed after great frustration.”
“There's going to be ups and downs and that you have to be okay with the downs too and embrace them just as much because they will teach you something.”

Source : Source: www.songfacts.com
“The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.”

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