"Whether you prevail or fail depends more on what you do to yourself than on what the world does to you."

-- James C. Collins

#Doe Quotes #World Quotes #Failing Quotes

“If you close the door to the things you feel comfortable with, you will never discover the truth about yourself.”

Source : Source: www.artzip.org
“The doctors take the bodily evidence as the disease. . . . disease is itself an impudent opinion. He throws off the feelings of the sick and imparts to them his own which are perfect health, and his explanation destroys their feelings or disease. . . . He is like a captain who knows his business and feels confident in a storm, and his confidence sustains the crew and ship when both would be lost if the captain should give way to his fears.”
“Why, what is to live? Not to eat and drink and breathe,â€”but to feel the life in you down all the fibres of being, passionately and joyfully.”

Source : Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2012). “Browning: Poems”, p.223, Everyman's Library
“To collude in the minimisation of British history on the grounds of its imagined irrelevance to our rebranded national future, or from a suspicion that it does no more than recycle patriotic pieties unsuited to a global marketplace, would be an act of appallingly self-inflicted collective memory loss.”
“There is no original truth, only original error.”
“Baseball will miss Steinbrenner. He did a lot of great things-and some not so great-but it's a sad day for baseball, no doubt about it. He was a winner, and he made the Yankees a winner.”
“Far clouds of feathery gold, Shaded with deepest purple, gleam Like islands on a dark blue sea.”
“As you become more proficient, fewer people can offer you advice, although in truth, that's when you need it the most because the stakes just keep getting higher and higher.”

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