#failure

A natural response when people feel overwhelmed is to retreat into various forms of passivity. If we don’t try too much in life, if we limit our circle of action, we can give ourselves the illusion of control. The less we attempt, the less chances of failure. If we can make it look like we are not really responsible for our fate, for what happens to us in life, then our apparent powerlessness is more palatable. ↗

— Robert Greene

#risk #nature

Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy. ↗

— Richard Rohr

#clergy #failure #religion #life

All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#politics #war #failure

I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless. ↗

— Neal Shusterman

#failure #irony #optimism #failure

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#hope #failure

I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#failure

Sticks and stones will break your bones, but failure will get you killed. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#anita #blake #hunter #jacob #vampire

Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#failure #failure

You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link. This is but half the truth. You are also as strong as your strongest link. To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the power of ocean by the frailty of its foam. To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#strength #failure

Now we cannot...discover our failure to keep God's law except by trying our very hardest (and then failing). Unless we really try, whatever we say there will always be at the back of our minds the idea that if we try harder next time we shall succeed in being completely good. Thus, in one sense, the road back to God is a road of moral effort, of trying harder and harder. But in another sense it is not trying that is ever going tobring us home. All this trying leads up to the vital moment at which you turn to God and say, "You must do this. I can't. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#god #surrender #failure