"I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try."

-- Nikki Giovanni

#Inspirational Quotes #Life Quotes #Inspiring Quotes

“Tis as manlike to bear extremities as godlike to forgive.”
“Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.”
“Their notion of training was to march the men up and down in parades and reviews: these were nice to look at and gave them the impression of military discipline and precision, but as a preparation for a modern war they had no value whatsoever.”

Source : Orlando Figes (1997). “A people's tragedy: a history of the Russian Revolution”, Viking Pr
“There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.”

Source : Charles Dudley Warner (1874). “Baddeck, and that Sort of Thing”, p.16
“But actually, I'm planning on moving to New York this year and I can tell you one reason why I think New York is incredible: I think things happen to you that you don't expect have happen to you.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Today's public education system is a failed monopoly: bureaucratic, rigid and in unsteady control of dissatisfied captive markets.”

Source : "Parental Choice in Public Schools Gains" by Edward B. Fiske, www.nytimes.com. July 11, 1988.
“Cause and effect are never divided between two people.”
“I wonder how many ways there are for a mother to produce that wreckage in her own daughter, and my muscles tense as I think of them.”

Source : Jon McGregor (2012). “If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things”, p.182, Bloomsbury Publishing

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