"I'm inspired by failure. The process of defeat â€“ picking yourself back up again is the hardest thing in the world."

-- Lolo Jones

#World Quotes #Inspired Quotes #Defeat Quotes

“My breath in the cold air was bleach that accidentally spilled on a black t-shirt.”

Source : Heather O'Neill (2009). “Lullabies for Little Criminals: A Novel”, p.17, Harper Collins
“We have to get the Diamond. And Cesareâ€™s head.â€ They looked at me. â€œWhy the head?â€ Doolittle asked. â€œBecause itâ€™s easy to carry and I can torture it for a long time.â€ And I didnâ€™t just say it out loud, did I? I checked their faces. Yep, I did.”
“We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit.”
“I wonder if music is the only expression of the soul that is not hopelessly compromised in communication.”

Source : Jonathan Hull (2001). “Losing Julia”, Island Books
“A novel is like a gland pill - it nips off the cream of my hysterics and gets them running on track in a book where they belong instead of rioting all over my person.”

Source : Dawn Powell (1998). “The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965”, Zoland Books
“All during that prison time I really lived by prayer. Be in prayer always, we're told, and back then I was.”
“It would be folly to argue that the people cannot make political mistakes. They can and do make grave mistakes. They know it, they pay the penalty, but compared with the mistakes which have been made by every kind of autocracy they are unimportant.”
“We had to build a city not for businesses or automobiles, but for children and thus for people. Instead of building highways, we restricted car use. We invested in high-quality sidewalks, pedestrian streets, parks, bicycle paths, libraries; we got rid of thousands of cluttering commercial signs and planted trees. All our everyday efforts have one objective: Happiness.”

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