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Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.
- Milan Kundera
Failures can be God's little whispers (or) a full earthquake in our lives because we didn't listen to the whispers
- Oprah Winfrey
Failure is just a way for our lives to show us we're moving in the wrong direction, that we should try something different
- Oprah Winfrey
Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.
- Oscar Wilde
It's worse now because before I had 16 Republican, conservative people and the media had their favorite but they didn't particularly love anybody. Now it's myself really against the media.
- Donald Trump
Approach every difficulty as if it were sent to you at that moment and in that way to teach you something you need to learn so you can continue moving forward.
- Brian Tracy
The fact is that successful people fail far more often than unsuccessful people. Successful people try more things, fall down, pick themselves up, and try again—over and over again—before they finally win.
- Brian Tracy
DON'T QUIT When things go wrong, as they sometimes will, When the road you're trudging seems all uphill, When the funds are low and the debts are high, And you want to smile but you have to sigh.
- Brian Tracy
Difficulties come not to obstruct, but to instruct.
- Brian Tracy
You will have many ups and downs in life, but what is most important is that you remain "true to yourself." Then, as Shakespeare said, "thou can'st not then be false to any man.
- Brian Tracy
As the pioneering physicist Benjamin Franklin put it, "In going on with these experiments, how many pretty systems do we build, which we soon find ourselves obliged to destroy?
- Carl Sagan
I have lost my smile, but don't worry. The dandelion has it.
- Thich Nhat Hanh