But if I am to let my life speak things I want to hear, things I would gladly tell others, I must also let it speak things I do not want to hear and would never tell anyone else! My life is not only about my strengths and virtues; it is also about my liabilities and my limits, my trespasses and my shadow. An inevitable though often ignored dimension of the quest for 'wholeness' is that we must embrace what we dislike or find shameful about ourselves as well as what we are confident and proud of. Parker J. Palmer
The end of a relationship is not always a failure. Sometimes all the love in the world is not enough to save something. In these cases, it is not a matter of fault from either person. Some things cannot be, it's as simple as that.
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Ashly Lorenzana
Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.
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Roy T. Bennett
You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do everyday.
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Jason Mraz
Successful people have no fear of failure. But unsuccessful people do. Successful people have the resilience to face up to failure–learn the lessons and adapt from it.
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Roy T. Bennett
The one who falls and gets up is stronger than the one who never tried. Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.
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Roy T. Bennett
More Quotes By Parker J. Palmer
Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.
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In my own life, as winters turn into spring, I find it not only hard to cope with mud but also hard to credit the small harbingers of larger life to come, hard to hope until the outcome is secure. Spring teaches me to look...
