#lure

The ancient commission of the writer has not changed. He is charged with exposing our many grievous faults and failures, with dredging up to the light our dark and dangerous dreams for the purpose of improvement." [Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech] ↗

— John Steinbeck

#exposure #failures #faults #improvement #writers

For a lack of education, a child's future may hold no fortune. ↗

— Dennis E. Adonis

#children #college #education #fail #failures

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

#inspirational #equality

Love provides the only forum where success and failure are equally embraced. (from the book "Your Ex-Boyfriend Will Hate") ↗

— Blue Sullivan

#love #success #wisdom #wisdom-inspirational #equality

When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important. It's hard to understand failure when you're going through it, but in the grand scheme of things it's good to fall down—not because you're drunk and not near stairs. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#risks #success #equality

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#intelligence #science #scientific-process #success #truth

You are a side effect," Van Houten continued, "of an evolutionary process that cares little for individual lives. You are a failed experiment in mutation. ↗

— John Green

#failure #side-effects #van-houten-being-a-douche #experience

There's a difference between thinking you can't be wrong and having no regrets. Wrongness is what occurs prior to empiricism, in hindsight a counterpart of revelation, and revelation is nothing to regret. ↗

— Criss Jami

#counterpart #discovery #empiricism #experience #failures

I know you like to be in control and you operate a lot from fear but you have to break the bounds of your past Nicole and rewrite the story you’ve been telling yourself based off of others experiences. You have to create your own experience, write your own story. ↗

— Kathryn Vance-Perez

#inspirational-success-failure #experience

No matter how loud the sirens or how numerous the hazard signs, we all touch the flames at least once to prove they're hot. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#failure #learning #mistakes #richelle #richelle-goodrich