Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.' You won't believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.' You won't believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
If at first you don't succeed, before you try again, stop to figure out what you did wrong.
I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again.
Life is a gift, and i try to respond with grace and courtesy.
All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
So what if you fail? At least you'll know what not to do when you try again.
Chaos isn’t a pit. Chaos is a ladder. Many who try to climb it fail and never get to try again. The fall breaks them. And some are given a chance to climb, but they refuse. They cling to the realm, or the gods, or love. Illusions. Only the ladder is real. The climb is all there is.
Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.
One tiny Hobbit against all the evil the world could muster. A sane being would have given up, but Samwise burned with a magnificent madness, a glowing obsession to surmount every obstacle, to find Frodo, destroy the Ring, and cleanse Middle Earth of its festering malignancy. He knew he would try again. Fail, perhaps. And try once more. A thousand, thousand times if need be, but he would not give up the quest.
The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think.
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