"When I try, I fail. When I trust, He succeeds."

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Corrie Ten Boom

#Trying Quotes #Succeed Quotes #Failing Quotes

“I have a bunch of albums I would love to get re-released.”
“Anything that's natural can't be sinful-it may be inconvenient, but it's not sinful.”
“If you want to be a real human being - a real woman, a real man - you cannot tolerate things which put you to indignation, to outrage. You must stand up. I always say to people, 'Look around; look at what makes you unhappy, what makes you furious, and then engage yourself in some action.'”
“I actually pushed the boundaries on how long a book like this [The Thorn and the Blossom] can be. The original plan called for two 7,500 word stories, and I turned in two 10,000 word stories.”

Source : Source: www.sfsignal.com
“Sometimes I fantasize about learning to write in Khmer. Because if I could write in Khmer, my perspective would be very different, because I'm both an outsider and insider and I see the writing in a different way. My description would be different from, say, a local writer.”
“The faults of which we ask you [God] the remittance, it is you who make us commit them; the traps of which we implore you to deliver us, it is you who has set them for us; and the Satan which surrounds us, this Satan, it is you.”
“Fame has no necessary conjunction with praise; it may exist without the breath of a word: it is a recognition of excellence which must be felt, but need not be spoken. Even the envious must feel it,--feel it, and hate in silence.”

Source : "Memoirs and Essays, Washington Allston", as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 256-59, 1922.
“I never once went to a prostitute, maybe because so many enthusiastic amateurs were around.”

Source : Alexander Sutherland Neill (1972). “Neill! Neill! Orange peel!: An autobiography”, Hart Associates

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