#lure

No one except your husband knows of the cautiousness at the heart of your life. Your adulthood has been a progressive retreat from curiosity and wonder, an endless series of delays and procrastinations. You wanted to be so much, once, but life kept on getting in the way... You settled. Shunned creativity, flight, risk, never had the courage to give a dream, any dream, a go. ↗

— Nikki Gemmell

#dreams #fear-of-failure #courage

Nothing is as empowering as real-world validation, even if it's for failure. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#failure #validation #art

Nevertheless, what was made in the hope of transforming the world need not be rejected because it failed to do so – otherwise, one would also have to throw out a good deal of the greatest painting and poetry of the nineteenth century. An objective political failure can still work as a model of intellectual affirmation or dissent. ↗

— Robert Hughes

#artists #creativity #dissent #failure #revolution

H is for Habit, winners make a habit of doing the things losers don't want to do. ↗

— Lucas Remmerswaal

#habits #inspirational-quotes #inspirational-success-failure #attitude

Never let your failures go to your heart or your successes go to your head. ↗

— Sōichirō Honda

#failures #reminder #success #attitude

Girls aren't beautiful, they're pretty. Beautiful is too heavy a word to assign to a girl. Women are beautiful because their faces show that they know they have lost something and picked up something else. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#attractiveness #beauty

Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one. ↗

— Junot Díaz

#success #life

Never restart a journey and use the same road that failed you before. ↗

— Dennis E. Adonis

#courage #failures #life #new-beginning #progress

Failure and things of this sort - you can take it one of two ways. You can either let that hurt you and really affect the way that you live your life in the future, or you can use that as an opportunity for growth. ↗

— Matt Emmons

#either #failure #future #growth #hurt

Failure is not the end. In fact it is the beginning of a beautiful journey. ↗

— Jade Youssef

#failure #journey #beauty