#fail

Disappointment is really just a term for our refusal to look on the bright side. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#discouragement #failure #goals #optimism #pessimism

Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic train-car constructions like, say, "the happiness that attends disaster." Or: "the disappointment of sleeping with one's fantasy." I'd like to show how "intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members" connects with "the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age." I'd like to have a word for "the sadness inspired by failing restaurants" as well as for "the excitement of getting a room with a minibar." I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#disappointment #emotions #english #excitement #fail

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#every #every time #fail #failing #glory

My past is everything I failed to be. ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

#past #self #time #past

Don't listen to the malicious comments of those friends who, never taking any risks themselves, can only see other people's failures. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#failure

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency -- the belief that the here and now is all there is. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#books #narrowmindedness #reading #self-deception #self-limiting-beliefs

I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#bored #does #else #failures #i

I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#perseverance #failure

I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#failure

Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence. ↗

— George Eliot

#failure