Quotes & Sayings About Rebounding From Failure

Mr.Tasker worshipped pigs, and a great many of his gods, fat and lean, were always in the fields round his house. He killed his gods himself, and with great unction he would have crucified them if he could have bled them better that way and so have obtained a larger price. — T.F. Powys

They have sex. They do not have a sex. In their erotic lives, they are not required to act out their status in a category system - because there is no category system. There are no sexes to belong to, so sex between creatures is free to be between genuine individuals - not representatives of a category. They have sex. They do not have a sex. — John Stoltenberg

Let me begin again as a speck
of dust caught in the night winds
sweeping out to sea. Let me begin
this time knowing the world is
salt water and dark clouds, the world
is grinding and sighing all night, and dawn
comes slowly, and changes nothing. — Philip Levine

My mother showed her gratitude for her life in exile by alluding to India's modernity: the expansive railway network; the Bollywood movies she came to love for their tumultuous stories which ultimately conceded to the cardinal guidelines she held in her own life- love, family and duty. Still, it was Tibet's antiquity that anchored her in exile. It was phayul she longed for when her skin was scorched by the summer heat of India's plains. When she drank milk she compared it to the milk of her childhood for such sweetness and creaminess was not easily forgotten, and when she felt nauseous riding the buses that weaved their way around curvaceous mountain roads she spoke of the horses she had loved to ride. — Tsering Wangmo Dhompa

You only get inspired, if you are willing to. — Krishna Sagar

I may be a lunatic, but then, wasn't my lunacy caused by a monster that lurks at the bottom of every human mind? Those who call me a madman and spurn me may become lunatics tomorrow. They harbor the same monster. — Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Wisdom considers not only the cost of a choice, but also its value. — Wes Fesler

Albrecht's Law - Intelligent people, when assembled into an organization, will tend toward collective stupidity. — Karl Albrecht