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“You might never fail on the scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default.”
― Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination
― Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination
“People who know a lot of the same things can hardly help talking about them, and if you're there you can hardly help feeling that you're out of it.”
― The Horse and His Boy
― The Horse and His Boy
“Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world," he said wisely one day, "but people don't know what it is like or how to make it. Perhaps the beginning is just to say nice things are going to happen until you make them happen. I am going to try and experiment.”
― The Secret Garden
― The Secret Garden
“It’s difficult to know which second among a lifetime of seconds is more special. Often when you realise how precious those seconds are, it’s too late for them to be captured because the moment has passed. We realise too late.”
― A Place Called Here
― A Place Called Here
“So remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don’t just give up. Unleash your imagination. Shape the future.”
― Brief Answers to the Big Questions
― Brief Answers to the Big Questions
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