“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
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“Sometimes you have to get sicker before you can get better.”
― The Glass Castle
― The Glass Castle
“Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.”
― Up from Slavery
― Up from Slavery
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
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“I wanted to let the world know that no one had a perfect life, that even the people who seemed to have it all had their secrets.”
― The Glass Castle
― The Glass Castle
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