"Success doesn't teach as many lessons as failure"

-- Jay Samit

#Lessons Quotes #Teach Quotes

“Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel, and they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.”
“I'm an enormous fan of Thomas Bernhard's books, and I like the relentless feeling in his work - the pursuit of darkness, the negative - and I think in some sense I've internalised that as what one is supposed to do.”

Source : "Ben Marcus: 'Writing has to earn people's interest'". Interview with Killian Fox, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2012.
“A garden is where you can find a whole spectrum of life, birth and death”

Source : Tiffany Baker (2009). “The Little Giant of Aberdeen County”, p.162, Hachette UK
“Today I live on an island, in a house that is sad, hard, severe, that I built for myself, solitary on a sheer rock over the sea: a house that is the spectre, the secret image of prison. The image of my nostalgia. Maybe I never desired, not even then, to escape from jail. Man is not meant to live freely in freedom, but to be free inside a prison.”

Source : Curzio Malaparte (2007). “Woman Like Me”, p.7, Troubador Publishing Ltd
“I think society had to grow up to the mentality of Peter Norman.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“People are persuaded by reason, but moved by emotion; [the leader] must both persuade them and move them.”
“Being excited about stuff on a daily basis, I'm so excited by it.”
“Sometimes I think that love is one big fairy tale. I wonder if people who say they are in love, if â€“ really â€“ theyâ€™ve just talked themselves into it. They want it so badly, they kind of make it happen. They fake it until they start believing their own story. Maybe thatâ€™s just sour grapes or something. Maybe because it doesnâ€™t happen to me, I donâ€™t want to think it happens to anyone else.”

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