"Happiness is an enemy. It weakens you. Suddenly, you have something to lose."

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Source : "Rush's soap washes away subtleties of James Hunt and Niki Lauda" by Richard Williams, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2013.

Niki Lauda

“The only really fatal element in defeat is the resolution not to try again.”

Source : John Henry Jowett (1916). “The Whole Armour of God”
“I was brought up to believe that there is no such thing as failure as long as I'm trying my best. So I've had a 'blood, guts and glory' approach through my whole life.”
“'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.”
“The best that we can hope for in this life is that we shall not have sons and grandsons of whom we need to be ashamed.”
“I wanted to make photographs in which everything was so complex and detailed that you could look at them forever and never see everything.”
“Shaking hands with the Queen of England was a long way from being forced to sit in the colored section of the bus going into downtown Wilmington, North Carolina.”
“Age about 30, I stopped looking up my books in bookstores. Paying attention to the marketplace isn't a healthy thing for me.”
“All the persons of faith I know are sinners, doubters, uneven performers. We are secure not because we are sure of ourselves but because we trust that God is sure of us.”

Source : Eugene H. Peterson (2012). “A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society”, p.90, InterVarsity Press

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