If we are not open to failure then we surely lack courage. And if we don’t display courage, then we’ve already failed ourselves. Burning Vow – Apathy & Acceptance
Don’t use a big word when a singularly unloquacious and diminutive linguistic expression will satisfactorily accomplish the contempory necessity. Unknown
Feelings are much like waves: we can’t stop them from coming, but we can choose which one to surf. Jonatan Mårtensson
Even if times are tough and you’re enduring a terrible heartache, it’s important to focus your anger on a vibrator, not another person. Chelsea Handler
Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth. Khalil Gibran
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. Aldous Huxley
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the universe. That makes us something very special. Stephen Hawking
We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion. Jacqueline Du Pre
What whiskey will not cure, there is no cure for. Irish Proverb
Without great solitude no serious work is possible. Pablo Picasso
You cannot enjoy the rhythm and ignore the blues. Amanda Seales, via Clara Amfo
Don’t fear change. Don’t fear failure. The only thing to fear is loss of ambition. But if you’ve got plenty of that, then you have nothing to fear at all. Neil deGrasse Tyson
Mortal as I am, I know that I am born for a day. But when I follow at my pleasure the serried multitude of the stars in their circular course, my feet no longer touch the earth. Ptolemy
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. Charles Darwin