"What is failure except feebleness? And what is it to miss one's mark except to aim widely and weakly?"

-- Ouida

#Failure Quotes #Missing Quotes #Mark Quotes

“You can never know if a person forgives you when you wrong them. Therefore it is existentially important to you. It is a question you are intensely concerned with. Neither can you know whether a person loves you. Itâ€™s something you just have to believe or hope. But these things are more important to you than the fact that the sum of the angles in a triangle is 180 degrees. You don't think about the law of cause and effect or about modes of perception when you are in the middle of your first kiss.”
“I like cluttered, old, dark-wood antiques. I like character.”
“It's OK to not be OK - just don't stay there.”
“Animals are nicer than humans and they're conscious beings. If you stick your grandmother in an oven, she will probably be tasty. But is that any reason to eat your grandmother?”
“We have peace with God as soon as we believe, but not always with ourselves. The pardon may be past the prince's hand and seal, and yet not put into the prisoner's hand.”
“I learned to embrace risk, as long as it was well thought out and, in a worst-case scenario, I'd still land on my feet.”
“The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.”
“Turn soft and lovely any time you have a chance”

Source : Jenny Holzer, Stefan Banz, Thomas Whitridge, Béatrix Ruf (2001). “Jenny Holzer: xenon”

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