Failure Quote by Loren Eiseley

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“It was the failures who had always won, but by the time they won they had come to be called successes.”

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“Taking a final pleasure in what the wind can neither proclaim nor destroy, I am a student of nightfall, I claim no other profession.”

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“The best way to be resurrected is to be forgotten.”

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To have dragons one must have change; that is the first principle of dragon lore.

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It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

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Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among…

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The future is neither ahead nor behind, on one side or another. Nor is it dark or light. It is contained within ourselves; its…

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Out of the choked Devonian waters emerged sight and sound and the music that rolls invisible through the composer's brain. They are there still…

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One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.

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“I once saw, on a flower pot in my own living room, the efforts of a field mouse to build a remembered field. I…

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Lights come and go in the night sky. Men, troubled at last by the things they build, may toss in their sleep and dream…

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No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.

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If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.

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First action was a mistake. What about the second? third? fourth and fifth?...Mehn you are bad...

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God's love never fail :)

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Don’t you just hate nights like that, when you think over every mistake you’ve made, every hurt you’ve received, every bit of meanness you’ve…

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“Our failure to understand another being's inner reality doesn't make that reality any less real, or any less valuable to that being. (p.255)”

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I hope that the Palestinians don't make the mistake of unleashing a new intifada. They've tried it twice before, and the consequences were bad…

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Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.

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