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Wearing fake happiness is as good as smearing foundation. A bit of moisture drains it all.

Fate is a woman, I said to them. In fact, she is three women. Young, like us, so that they will have the courage to be cruel, having no weight of memory to teach temperance. Young, but so old, older than any stone. Their hair is silver, but full and long. Their eyes are black. But when they are at their work they become dogs, wolves, for they are hounds of death, and also hounds of joy. They take the strands of life in their jaws, and sometimes they are careful with their jagged teeth, and sometimes they are not. They gallop around a great monolith, the stone that pierces our Sphere where the meridians meet, that turns the Earth and pins it in place in the world. It is called the Spindle of Necessity, and all round it the wolves of fate run, and run, and run, and the patterns of their winding are the patterns of the world. Nothing can occur without them, but they take no sides. I could also say that there is such a stone, such a place, but the dogs who are women died long ago, and left the strands to fall, and we have been helpless ever since. That in a wolfless world we must find our own way. That is more comforting to me. I want my own way, I want to falter; I want to fail, and I want to be redeemed. All these things I want to spool out from the spindle that is me, not the spindle of the world. But I have heard both tales.

I just don't understand why those who fail to listen to others possess a habitual desire to be listened to.

When we stake a claim to the needs and wants of our life, we may easily fail to live up to the standards of others. Empathy and connectedness, however, might bridge the gap, by stirring our consciousness of the sensitive queries and by assessing the intricate framework of our surroundings with their countless, prickly nitty-gritties. ("Absence of Desire")

If you are afraid to fail, then you are afraid to succeed.

Fail often and fail cheap.

Rushing into action, you fail.Trying to grasp things, you lose them.Forcing a project to completion,you ruin what was almost ripe.Therefore the Master takes actionby letting things take their course.He remains as calm at the end as at the beginning.He has nothing,thus has nothing to lose.What he desires is non-desire;what he learns is to unlearn.He simply reminds peopleof who they have always been.He cares about nothing but the Tao.Thus he can care for all things.

We don't punish the ones who fail. They just-don't go on,

If you adjust first time, compromise second time, failure is what you will get third time.

Never give up your right to be wrong, and be sure to give others that right too.

Nothing is as empowering as real-world validation, even if it's for failure.

My friend Richard Carrion, the CEO of Puerto Rico__ top bank, once shared a line with me that I__l never forget: __obin, nothing fails like success._ Powerful thought. Your business is most vulnerable when it__ most successful. Success actually breeds complacency, inefficiency and _ worst of all _ arrogance. Whenever I share this point with a roomful of CEOs, every one of them nods their head at this one. Please let me give you a real-world example from my own life.

Don't overestimate your emotions because emotional injuries can disturb you but it can not defeat you.

Without knowing failure how can we know success?

Without doing one cannot fail. But one cannot succeed either.

Emotional pain, physical damage, financial weakness are the reasons to stop for a while and not forever.

Failure is successful when you fail.

There is nothing wrong with being wrong.