Your downfall is a preparation for your up-rise. If you don’t know this secret, you will remain on the floor, blaming your legs instead of your head!

Israelmore Ayivor
About This Quote

In this quote, author T.S. Eliot is challenging you to look at and understand the unexpected and unforeseen consequences of your actions and inactions, whether good or bad. He uses the example of a man who falls down in an attempt to rise up again. But, in doing so, he falls even further and ends up on the floor in a more humiliating position.

Source: Daily Drive 365

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