"Sometimes I succeed, sometimes I fail, but every day is a clean slate and a fresh opportunity"

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Source : "Happiness: Should You Have Goals Or Resolutions?" by Gretchen Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 18, 2008.

Gretchen Rubin

#Opportunity Quotes #Succeed Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“Day, after day, after glorious day, I was falling in love with books.....”
“Those who only do what they feel like, don't do much. To be successful at anything you must take action even when you don't feel like it, knowing it is the action itself that will produce the motivation you need to follow through.”
“"I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received, but even for the slightest evidence of kindness; and there is nothing so boorish, savage, inhuman as to appear to be overwhelmed by a favor, let alone unworthy of it."”
“The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.”

Source : Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings”, p.47, Penguin UK
“For black people in the western hemisphere, if you can't generate a mythology that creates models of heroism and power out of the mythology that you had, then that means that somehow the mythology you had was not only feeble and weak, but that you are ultimately a powerless people. That's a notion that, I think, that can't be accepted.”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com
“A young man who had been troubling society with impalpable doctrines of a new civilization which he called "the Kingdom of Heaven" had been put out of the way; and I can imagine that believer in material power murmuring as he went homeward, "it will all blow over now." Yes. The wind from the Kingdom of Heaven has blown over the world, and shall blow for centuries yet.”

Source : George William Russell (1920). “The Economics of Ireland and the Policy of the British Government”
“Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our psyche.”
“There is no bad light. There is spectacular light and difficult light. It's up to you to use the light you have.”

Source : Jay Maisel (2014). “Light, Gesture, and Color”, p.2, New Riders

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