#succeeded

I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded. ↗

— Mary Oliver

#i #left #much #noticed #sort

A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality. ↗

— William Winwood Reade

#buddhism #catholic #could #mankind #masses

I feel less adrenaline in my body now, but more in my head. I tried to be at my best, and I succeeded. ↗

— Andriy Shevchenko

#best #body #feel #head #i

To Laugh Often & to Love much ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#love

I've succeeded as far as I'm concerned - I don't feel that I have any cliffs I could fall over anytime soon. ↗

— Shania Twain

#anytime #as far as #cliffs #concerned #could

Yet the effort to inform the public also encouraged responsible public discussion that succeeded in developing a consensus for the measured approach that many scientists supported. ↗

— Paul Berg

#approach #consensus #developing #discussion #effort

An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#decisions #expert #ignore #judgements #knowing

The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded. ↗

— Dale Turner

#better #correct #failed #mistake #nothing

The man who didn't want his wife to work has been succeeded by the man who asks about her chances of getting a raise. ↗

— Earl Wilson

#asks #been #chances #getting #her

To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster! ↗

— Denis Diderot

#attempt #complete #desire #destruction #end