"We can only learn to deal with failure by actually experiencing failure, by living through it. The earlier we face difficulties and drawbacks, the better prepared we are to deal with the inevitable obstacles along our path."

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Source : Tal Ben-Shahar (2009). “The Pursuit of Perfect: How to Stop Chasing Perfection and Start Living a Richer, Happier Life”, p.22, McGraw Hill Professional

Tal Ben-Shahar

#Path Quotes #Faces Quotes #Obstacles Quotes

“Talking about and analyzing sports isn't the same as playing sports.”

Source : "The Fix Live". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. February 12, 2016.
“Violence doesn't equal strength.”
“That we need only to recognize GOD intimately present with us, to address ourselves to Him every moment, that we may beg His assistance for knowing His will in things doubtful, and for rightly performing those which we plainly see He requires of us, offering them to Him before we do them, and giving Him thanks when we have done.”
“Most of the stuff I learned to play, I learned in high school. I had a band in high school, a jazz-fusion thing, and I was the keyboard player. I was interested in how the instruments worked and the theory behind playing with them.”
“Verily, affluence brings anxiety!”

Source : Anne Ellis (1997). “Plain Anne Ellis: More about the Life of an Ordinary Woman”, p.96, U of Nebraska Press
“It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.”
“If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.”
“The British Empire has advanced to a new conception of autonomyand freedom, to the idea of a system of British nations, each freely ordering its own individual life, but bound together in unity byallegiance to one Crown, and co-operating in all that concerns the common weal.”

Source : 1927 Opening, as Duke of York, the first Australian Parliament to assemble in Canberra, 9 May.

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