We are all failures- at least the best of us are.
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JAMES M. BARRIE Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads.
ANDONI GARCIA Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One
DANIEL GILMAN If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... The gift of Peter Pan was the most generous present J.M. Barrie could possibly have given to the hos...
JANE COLLINS I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f...
ARZELL Dae FATE NAYAE Nanagha Vandhuttoom Da, Sandy , Na Nata, London Lass,Russian Grapes, Ellorum Ippa Van...
SATHESH KUMAR M Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
I ARE A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that ...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN When all are talking, no one is probably listening; but if no one is speaking then perhaps all are o...
ANUJ SOMANY I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON But I don’t want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.'Oh, you can’t help that,' said the Cat...
LEWIS CARROLL Every little gracious act adds to the quotient of grace in the world - how gracious can you be today...
ANGIE KARAN We are all products of the failures of the people who raised us.
SUNDAY ADELAJA Are shadows a shadowy reflection of the soul or is it a reflection of who we really are, or possibly...
GARY F EVANS... We are this fucking stick in the end...
DEYTH BANGER We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live.
The universe may for...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON All of us fail, but this doesn't mean we are failures.
ROBERT MCGEE If we're honest, most of us are doing okay.
CRAIG GROESCHEL All movies are good if we are attentive to the social message that it conveys often in a subdued ton...
ANUJ SOMANY For all men are equal,in order to show man that you are equal,then always do things lesser than your...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) To prove that all men are equal, rich or poor,nature has made it compulsory for all to breath the sa...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever.
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Empathy is a bridge. Our sufferings connect us. Let pain make you softer.
AKIROQ BROST Outside... we are just nobody... you could meet me outside... but it doesn't mean that I am DeYtH Ba...
DEYTH BANGER Come on... come on... I am waiting for answer...
...
Silence doesn't make it... bet...
DEYTH BANGER What, the glass is half-full instead of half-empty? Bullshit. What they don't tell you is that regar...
T.J. KLUNE In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in se...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND You are worth more than you think you are
SOTONYE ANGA We are here because over billions of years, countless variables fell into place, any of which could ...
WENDY MASS So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ...
THOMAS HARRIS A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe", a part limited in time and space.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Aliens have been here for millennium.
But they didn't come in spaceships. They came in orange s...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS I knew there was something peculiar about you," she said. "And I mean that as the highest compliment...
RANSOM RIGGS Wherever you are, be all there.
CRAIG GROESCHEL When you live on a round planet, there's no choosing sides.
WAYNE DYER The farmer in us makes us do the things we do
SOTONYE ANGA See the world as a farm, and everything we do as farming
SOTONYE ANGA Sometimes we represent our weakness as if it were bad. We don’t think it’s okay to be weak…We ...
HENRY CLOUD The chakras in your body are as to galaxies on the body of God.
L.J. VANIER We are responsible for ourselves and each other.
RODEL NATIVIDAD CASIO We are here to create, not destroy.
VIKTORIJA GRUMBLYTė The first questions to be asked and answered in every contingency of life being: How will this thoug...
ALDOUS HUXLEY We are all sure of two things, at least; we shall suffer and we shall all die
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Most of us are living at a pace that is not only unsustainable; it's also unbiblical.
CRAIG GROESCHEL We all enjoyed the experience of the first leg at Easter Road, European nights are massive occasions...
DAVID MURPHY All of your failures, are training grounds
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO What is the meaning of life…to give life meaning.
CLIFFORD COHEN Failures are cheap if you do them first. Failures are expensive if you do them at the end.
ASTRO TELLER All religious and spiritual practices lead to one deep realisation: We Are One. All is One.
ANITA B. SULSER There is a farmer in every person. It is the farmer in you that makes you sow and reap
SOTONYE ANGA Why is it our failures only show us more clearly the people we are failing?
LEIF ENGER We are members of one another. What binds us together is far greater than what separates us... becau...
BENNET OMALU We are custodians. We are stewards. Our actions are being watched by others around us. Someone is lo...
ANGIE KARAN The best lies are based on the
truth, at least in part
CASSANDRA CLARE Successes are successes and failures are failures; we've definitely had our share of both, but we're...
CARL KURZ We're all in this together. You are not alone. All lines and divisions are artificial. We are one. W...
AKIROQ BROST What Does It Matter What We Believe, as long as we treat others the way we want to be treated?
JEFFREY A. WHITE You can find sorrow in the arithmetic, and you can find a bittersweet hope.
DAVID LEVITHAN It's a lie to think that you are not good enough. It's a lie to think that you are not beautiful. It...
DISON ARNIBAL Perhaps there is nothing wrong with being childish and naïve. Perhaps naivety is simply the unwilli...
VIRONIKA TUGALEVA Our failures in charity are chained to a narrowed vision of the world that makes too much of the dif...
REBECCA GOLDSTEIN We hope that this donation eases at least some of the deep suffering of all those affected by Hurric...
JIM MORAN We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least cor...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN In general we are least aware of what our minds do best.
MARVIN MINSKY If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner
MARLON BRANDO One Heart! One Mind! One Team! One Dream! One Goal! One Soul! That's how we roll!
MARCUS MAYO Everyone is the Umbrella Man and he is everyone. Every cough, sneeze, smile and wave means both ever...
CRAIG CLEVENGER You always want competition, because you want the best price. We are glad that we got at least two b...
ALICE GARLAND How we feel is not who we are. We might feel like failures, but as long as we are still trying, we a...
TONI SORENSON We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
OSCAR WILDE Not all those who fail, are failures.
PRATIK WANKHEDE What love is it, then, that has no need of words to call us? In whose image are we made, to take suc...
CHRISTIAN BOBIN It's not who you are, but what you're made of. It's not where you come from, but where you're going ...
CAREW PAPRITZ The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations ar...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, an...
ALFRED ADLER I think it will help we are the best when we are playing at home. We are very comfortable here at th...
LORI WALKER If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.
MARLON BRANDO Teams are better in transition at home, at least that's what I've noticed. At least we are. We are c...
BILL CARMODY We are only as great as the least among us.
MARJORY SHEBA The waves of love roll throughout the Universe, and overflow in our hearts..
Everything is ONE!
DAVE ZEBIAN To not be optimistic about the human race, would be a disregard of the power of the Spirit who creat...
MARTIN SUAREZ The awakening is finally realizing that you are a part of God, like a single cell that finally sees ...
L.J. VANIER We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate one a...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN We must constantly remind ourselves that we are the image and likeness of God
SOTONYE ANGA We are transitioning rapidly from a traditional manufacturing and agricultural society to a competit...
MICHAEL HARRIS Never get to the point where you cannot see anything good about yourself
SOTONYE ANGA It was important to us to at least finish with the best record at 7-1,
ALLAN RAY We are seeing progress and we are at least containing piracy.
ERIC NICOLI All Chinese are Confucianists when successful, and Taoists when they are failures
LYN YUTANG Beauty is the light within. Only when you see the light within yourself will others see it in you.
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J.M. COETZEE The distinctive crimes of this generation are crimes of subtlety and finesse.
—ALEXANDER S. ...
J.M. CARLISLE Alan shrugged. “I love the CBC, really, but being voted its president—” “Co-president,” Sp...
J.M. RICHARDS Lewis exasperated her, always talking about life before the Plague and how it would be if everything...
J.M. SULLIVAN With the buck before me suspended in immobility, there seems to be time for all things, time even to...
J.M. COETZEE Who are you?” he asked, in a bewildered tone. I cocked my head at him, totally baffled. “I told ...
J.M. RICHARDS I wouldn’t joke if you weren’t always patching me up,” Davin retorted. He looked at Chad again...
J.M. RICHARDS It’s so peaceful. I could go to sleep in here.” His eyes flickered to me once more, and for a di...
J.M. RICHARDS Den Staat kümmert nicht, ob der Bürger lebt oder stirbt. Wichtig für den Staat und sein Archiv is...
J.M. COETZEE Wie es im Zeitalter der Könige naiv gewesen wäre zu glauben, dass der erstgeborene Königssohn der...
J.M. COETZEE she’d rather sacrifice herself than him suffer a single moment because of her existence.
J.M. DARHOWER You fix what's broken, not what's lost. He's gone. You can't fix that. You can't bring him back. But...
J.M. DARHOWER The sun is setting, the sky is a tumult of oranges, reds and violets.
J.M. COETZEE I truly believe I am not afraid of death. What I shrink from, I believe, is the shame of dying as st...
J.M. COETZEE Do not think to swim below. The ocean is already pushing into ears, sinuses, temples, the softness o...
J.M. LEDGARD From one seed a whole handful: that was what it meant to say the bounty of the earth.
J.M. COETZEE When you're mortal, life is nothing more than a drawn-out game of Russian Roulette. Every moment is ...
J.M. DARHOWER He turned to leave when arms suddenly wrapped around him from behind, stalling him. Sighing, he clos...
J.M. DARHOWER He once envied the humans because they were given the Earth, but looking at her, he wondered if mayb...
J.M. DARHOWER I suddenly felt the way Cinderella might have felt if she hadn’t had that convenient midnight curf...
J.M. RICHARDS The problem in this world is that we have poetry but insist on living in prose.
J.M. CAMPOS I don’t want to go home yet.” He twisted at the waist and patted the seat behind him. “Take a ...
J.M. STEWART The reason is that as far as I am concerned, what happened to me is a purely private matter. In anot...
J.M. COETZEE Adam delayed only a second longer before traversing into the uncertain future, crossing the hidden d...
J.M. NORTHUP He would not mind hearing Petrus's story one day. But preferably not reduced to English. More and mo...
J.M. COETZEE Poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of respo...
J.M. COETZEE I'm sorry, my child, I just find it hard to whip up an interest in the subject. It's admirable, what...
J.M. COETZEE Dia wrinkled her nose. “Gross. You need a decent girl, one that can straighten you out.”
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J.M. DARHOWER Die Herren der Information haben die Poesie aus dem Auge verloren, wo Worte eine Bedeutung haben kö...
J.M. COETZEE That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.
JAMES BARRIE