"When the door shuts another opens. He that would struggle with the world, and bear up in adversity, ought still to resolve not to be discouraged, for resolution is the mother of fortitude, and not only necessary to our support, but very much conducive to our deliverance."

-- Samuel Palmer

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“It's not the failures in our life that define us, it's the moments when we decide that getting back up is all that matters”

Source : Twitter post from May 19, 2014
“Ezra clapped his hands. "all right," he said. "In addition to the books we're reading as a class, I want to do an extra side project on unreliable narrators." Devon Arliss raised her hand. "what does that mean?" Ezra strode around the room. "well, the narrator tells us the story in the book, right? But what if... the narrator isn't telling us the truth? Maybe he's telling us his skewed version of the story to get you on his side. Or to scare you. Or maybe he's crazy!”
“I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.”
“Man is naturally more disposed to beneficent than selfish actions. This we learn even from the history of savages. The domestic virtues have something in them so inviting and genial, and the public virtues of the citizen something so grand and inspiring, that even he who is barely uncorrupted, is seldom able to resist their charm.”
“I think time is elastic. There are moments in my life that are many, many years ago and yet I can conjure them as though it's a second ago. And there are other things that happened maybe last week that seem like ages ago.”

Source : "Interview: Keith Carradine talks ‘Fargo’ and a ‘Deadwood’ anniversary". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. April 23, 2014.
“After you have loss in your life and after you experience something like losing your parents, the greatest gift of that was it prepared me for [anything]. Nothing else is as scary, and certainly stand-up comedy is not as scary as sitting there with your mom and having to have last conversations and things like that. It's heavy stuff, but it's enlightening because it makes me think I shouldn't be afraid of sharing ideas and thoughts with people. It's the yin and the yang of life.”
“Iâ€™ve actually been in a lot of movies that involve sucking on fingers.”
“You have to sow before you can reap. You have to give before you can get.”

Source : Robert Collier (2013). “Riches Within Your Reach”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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