It's not about failure it's about trying something and risking something for attaining your goal.

When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.

Billy Joel

While weight loss is important, what's more important is the quality of food you put in your body - food is information that quickly changes your metabolism and genes.

Mark Hyman

There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

Carl Jung

Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure

Virginia Woolf

...for until that God who rules all the region of the sky...has freed you from the fetters of your body, you cannot gain admission here. Men were created with the understanding that they were to look after that sphere called Earth, which you see in the middle of the temple. Minds have been given to them out of the eternal fires you call fixed stars and planets, those spherical solids which, quickened with divine minds, journey through their circuits and orbits with amazing speed...

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Scipios D

Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.

Colley Cibber

The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?

James Hillman

Tact is to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.

Oliver Herford

June has never looked more beautiful than she does now, unadorned and honest, vulnerable yet invincible.

Marie Lu

Growing up in the '70s and '80s, science fiction and especially fantasy had such a stigma attached to them. I felt so punished and exiled for being devoted to these things.

Lev Grossman

We always weaken everything we exaggerate.

Fr餩ricC鳡r

Doon was touched. Kenny looked like a tiny little wisp, but there was something strong inside him. --People of Sparks--

Jeanne DuPrau