"You're not a failure if you don't make it. You're a success because you tried."

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Source : Susan Jeffers (2017). “Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway”, p.39, Random House

Susan Jeffers

#Graduation Quotes

“Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenomena, a Jewish festival without food. Instead it is a day of fasting and prayer, introspection and self-judgment when, collectively and repeatedly, we confess our sins and pray to be written into God's Book of Life.”
“You may be sorry that you spoke, sorry you stayed or went, sorry you won or lost, sorry so much was spent. But as you go through life, you'll find - you're never sorry you were kind.”
“I was signed when I was 19 years old, in 1980. I went to Germany and France. Seeing the world at that time was just an awesome experience for a teenager.”
“Great artistic talent in any direction... is hardly inherent to the man. It comes and goes; it is often possessed only for a short phase in his life; it hardly ever colors his character as a whole and has nothing to do with the moral and intellectual stuff of the mind and soul. Many great artists, perhaps most great artists, have been poor fellows indeed, whom to know was to despise.”
“He made us realize that if the mind was willing, the body can go.”
“Why don't you bring your face up here and let me punch it? Then you can tell me (if I'm stronger).”
“Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Sometimes, the shortest path between two points is serpentine,”

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