But you cant shut everyone out. I mean you have to have someone to love... someone to hold on to... someone--
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Hubert Selby Jr.
Great things happen to those who don't stop believing, trying, learning, and being grateful.
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Roy T. Bennett
Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.
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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
To learn something new, you need to try new things and not be afraid to be wrong.
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Roy T. Bennett
More Quotes By John Burnside
All you have to do is choose the right day, the right weather, and you come upon a hidden place in the morning light where time stopped long before you were born
The trick and the beauty of language is that it seems to order the whole universe, misleading us into believing that we live in sight of a rational space, a possible harmony.
My father was one of those men who sit in a room and you can feel it: the simmer, the sense of some unpredictable force that might, at any moment, break loose, and do something terrible. [Burnside, p. 27]
As I child, I came to this idea with a horrified fascination. Once upon a time, I wasn’t here. Before that, my parents weren’t here. And before that…
If you had to lose everything, what would you miss most? It wouldn't be anything gross, like the big house, or the fancy car, assuming you had such things. It wouldn't be your impeccable reputation, or fame, or the regard of others. No; if you...
