quotes on success and failure

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. ~Edward Abbey



The past is never there when you try to go back. It exists, but only in memory. To pretend otherwise is to invite a mess. ~Chris Cobbs



A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. ~Henry David Thoreau



You really shouldn't say "I love you" unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget. ~Author unknown, attributed to an 8-year-old named Jessica



I do my work at the same time each day - the last minute. ~Author Unknown



The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. ~George Bernard Shaw



Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself. ~Dick Cavett



To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter; to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life. ~John Burroughs



Chance is always powerful, let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. ~Ovid



When I look for my existence I do not look for it in myself. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Nursing care comes in many forms. Sometimes it is the ability to make someone feel physically comfortable by various means. Other times it is the ability to improve the body's ability to achieve or maintain health. But often it is an uncanny yet well honed knack to see beyond the obvious and address, in some way, the deeper needs of the human soul. ~Donna Wilk Cardillo, A Daybook for Beginning Nurses



All I pay my psychiatrist is the cost of feed and hay, and he'll listen to me any day. ~Author Unknown



Baseball is the only major sport that appears backwards in a mirror. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997



A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. ~Leo Buscaglia



I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. ~Bill Cosby



We're designed to be hunters and we're in a society of shopping. There's nothing to kill anymore, there's nothing to fight, nothing to overcome, nothing to explore. In that societal emasculation this everyman is created. ~David Fincher, director of Fight Club, interview with Gavin Smith, "Inside Out," Film Comment, Sep/Oct 1999 (Thank you, sexbratsrocknroll.) We're finally going to get the bill for the Industrial Age. If the projections are right, it's going to be a big one: the ecological collapse of the planet. ~Jeremy Rifkin, World Press Review, 30 December 1989



Quilters never grow old, they just go to pieces. ~Author Unknown



Cats can be cooperative when something feels good, which, to a cat, is the way everything is supposed to feel as much of the time as possible. ~Roger Caras



The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself. ~Gore Vidal



There's nothing better than a good friend, except a good friend with chocolate. ~Linda Grayson, "The Pickwick Papers"