"Failures and setbacks are a part of this experience, and it will remain in you as wisdom."

-- Ryuho Okawa

#Problem Quotes #Setback Quotes

“I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.”
“When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.”
“Morning, sunshine." Vlad blinked at her. "Morning, sulfuric acid." "Pardon me?" "Well, isn't it just kinda wrong to call a vampire 'sunshine'?”

Source : Heather Brewer (2007). “The chronicles of Vladimir Tod: eighth grade bites”
“I can never tell if guys are attractive in a loserly way or if they're just losers.”
“To the young: Work, work, work, and then work some more!”
“The analytic psychotherapist thus has a threefold battle to wage -- in his own mind against the forces which seek to drag him down from the analytic level; outside the analysis, against opponents who dispute the importance he attaches to the sexual instinctual forces and hinder him from making use of them in his scientific technique; and inside the analysis, against his patients, who at first behave like opponents but later on reveal the overvaluation of sexual life which dominates them, and who try to make him captive to their socially untamed passion.”
“I bring quadruple diversity to the Senate: I'm a woman; I'll be the first Asian woman ever to be elected to the U.S. Senate; I am an immigrant; I am a Buddhist. When I said this at one of my gatherings, they said, 'Yes, but are you gay?' and I said, 'Nobody's perfect.'”
“All art is bad, but modern art is the worst.”

Source : Joyce Cary (1985). “Triptych”, Penguin Classics

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