"We are neurotically haunted today by the imminence, and by the ignominy, of failure. We know at how frightening a cost one succeeds: to fail is something too awful to think about."

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Louis Kronenberger

#Failure Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Cost Quotes

“What a strange power the perception of beauty is! It seems to ebb and flow like some secret tide, independent alike of health and disease, of joy or sorrow. There are times in our lives when we seem to go singing on our way, and when the beauty of the world sets itself like a quiet harmony to the song we uplift.”

Source : Eleanor Brown (2011). “The Weird Sisters”, p.337, Penguin
“We were the quintessence of athletic atrocity.”
“The same principle that forbids me to lie does not allow me to tell the truth.”
“You see more and more why healing is happening through music. It's because music causes a reorganization of the tonal structure, and Man in essence is a vibration”
“Cruelty to children is the thing I can least bear in the world.”
“Sometimes good comes through adversity. I would not be who I am today had it not been for the internment, and I like who I am.”

Source : "The Irrationality of Love and Art" by George Heymont, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 16, 2011.
“Surface cures are not going to get rid of the torment that's inside.”
“The law of unintended consequences is the only real law of history.”

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