"Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me."

-- J. K. Rowling

#Failure Quotes #Energy Quotes #Finishing Quotes

“Cosmology is serious business and in our hearts we are nothing if not cosmologists, hanging in a cold cage sifting the ruthless jewels of existence.”
“Half-heartedness never won a battle.”
“The only way to get what you want is to make them more afraid of you than they are of each other.”
“That is the Wasp, yes. But it was captured by Black Stache, and heâ€™s coming for this ship now.â€ â€œAnd how do you know that?â€ asked Slank. â€œDid a seagull tell you?â€ This brought chuckles from the crew. Something like that, thought Peter.”
“It won't do you a bit of good to know everything if you don't do anything with it.”

Source : Louise Fitzhugh, Helen Ericson (2002). “Harriet Spies Again”, p.20, Delacorte Books for Young Readers
“If you're feeling insecure and you need to feel special, the best place to go is somewhere foreign where people treat you as special because you're different.”
“I am the heterosexual Truman Capote.”
“In the stillness of the quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair.”

Source : Howard Thurman (1985). “The Mood of Christmas”

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