#lure

if you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail… it takes back bone to lead the life you want ↗

— Richard Yates

#life

Nostalgia is a necessary thing, I believe, and a way for all of us to find peace in that which we have accomplished, or even failed to accomplish. At the same time, if nostalgia precipitates actions to return to that fabled, rosy-painted time, particularly in one who believes his life to be a failure, then it is an empty thing, doomed to produce nothing but frustration and an even greater sense of failure. ↗

— R.A. Salvatore

#actions #fables #failure #frustration #necessary

People don't fail; they just stop trying. ↗

— Bud Boyd

#life #success #trying #life

I think it’s important to have a good hard failure when you're young. I learned a lot out of that. Because it makes you kind of aware of what can happen to you. Because of it I’ve never had any fear in my whole life when we’ve been near collapse and all of that. I’ve never been afraid. I’ve never had the feeling I couldn’t walk out and get a job doing something. ↗

— Walt Disney Company

#life

I don't know the keys to success, but one key to failure is to try to please everyone. ↗

— Rick Warren

#keys-to-success #success #life

I assumed that everything would lead to complete failure, but I decided that didn't matter – that would be my life. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#life #life

For some unknown reason, success usually occurs in private, while failure occurs in full view. ↗

— Jill Shalvis

#life #success #life

Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#inspirational

Much of life is about failure, whether we acknowledge it or not, and your destiny is profoundly shaped by how effectively you learn from and adapt to failure. ↗

— David Brooks

#life

To live a creative life we must first lose the fear of being wrong. ↗

— Joseph Chilton Pearce

#creativity #fear-of-failure #life