"I had immediate success in the sense that I sold something right off the bat. I thought it was going to be a piece of cake and it really wasn't. I have drawers full of - or I did have - drawers full of rejection slips."

-- Fred Saberhagen

#Cake Quotes #Rejection Quotes #Bats Quotes

“Education, fundamentally, is the increase of the percentage of the conscious in relation to the unconscious. It must be a developing idea.”
“The price of being oneself is so high and involves so much ruthlessness toward others (or what looks like ruthlessness in our duty-bound culture) that very few people can afford it.”
“The most basic activism we can have in our lives is to live consciously in a nation living in fantasies. Living consciously is living with a core of healthy self-esteem. You will face reality, you will not delude yourself.”
“The toughest test of good judgment is to know when to withhold your better judgment.”
“This is hurting me a lot more than itâ€™s hurting you," he said. It was his standard line, but I knew that this time he was right. Worse than the boil was the stuff that came out of it. What got to me, and got to him even worse, was the stench, which was unbearable, and unlike anything I had come across before. It was, I thought, what evil must smell likeâ€”not an evil person but the wicked ideas that have made him that way. How could a person continue to live with something so rotten inside? And so much of it!”
“Little deeds of kindness Little words of love; Help to make earth an Eden Like the heaven above.”

Source : Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney, “Little Things”
“You can be serious without a suit”

Source : "After Facebook: the film, look out for Google: the movie" by Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. August 20, 2010.
“Perfection never exists in reality, but only in our dreams.”

Source : Rudolf Dreikurs (2013). “The Challenge of Marriage”, p.94, Taylor & Francis

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