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«We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn't. Success often lies just the other side of failure.»
Author: Leo F. Buscaglia
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About:
Failure,
Success,
Wisdom
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Keywords:
antithesis,
failure,
failures,
gain,
lies,
often,
Other side,
readily,
seem,
side,
sided,
Side Out,
successes,
the Other,
The other side,
think of,
through,
wisdom
«When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place»
Author: C.S. Lewis
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Novelist,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
another,
blessing,
given,
givens,
ITS,
lose,
most,
often,
other places,
place,
This is the Place,
unexpectedly
«We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
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Critic,
Philosopher,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
accept,
been,
expressed,
has-been,
has,
idea,
it accepts,
merely,
My ideas,
often,
refuse,
The Express,
tone,
tone of voice,
tone up,
U.S.,
unsympathetic,
us,
voice,
voiced,
voice over
«We also often add to our pain and suffering by being overly sensitive, over-reacting to minor things, and sometimes taking things too personally.»
Author: Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama
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Keywords:
ADD,
add on,
add to,
add up,
also,
minor,
minors,
often,
over,
overly,
pain,
personally,
reacted,
reacting,
reacts,
sensitive,
sometimes,
suffering,
taking
«When things go wrong, you'll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(
Novelist,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
at the start,
at the worst,
For some,
getting,
Getting started,
get started,
go,
going,
go bad,
go on,
go wrong,
in good time,
often,
once,
right,
some,
start,
start up,
the very worst,
usually,
worse,
wrong
«We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(
Critic,
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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Keywords:
and the,
at best,
best,
Better Than Life,
experience,
great,
often,
oftenest,
possible,
reproduce,
reproduced,
reproduces,
reproducing,
secret