PandemicSoul Quotelog

All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

- Lady Windermere’s Fan

If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

Men who for truth and honor’s sake
Stand fast and suffer long.
Brave men who work while others sleep,
Who dare while others fly…
They build a nation’s pillars deep
And lift them to the sky.

The way to succeed is to double your error rate.

The only time you don’t fail is the last time you try anything — and it works.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy.
I awoke and saw that life was service.
I acted and behold, service was joy.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.

It is not rejection itself that people fear, it is the possible consequences of rejection. Preparing to accept those consequences and viewing rejection as a learning experience that will bring you closer to success, will not only help you to conquer the fear of rejection, but help you to appreciate rejection itself.

The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.

-War and Peace

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand.