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Experience

Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.

— Author unknown, quoted by Randy Pausch in The Last Lecture  <link>

When you’re screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they’ve given up on you.

— Author unknown, quoted by Randy Pausch in The Last Lecture  <link>

In God’s Sight

The Lord looks on his servants with pity and not with blame. In God’s sight we do not fall; in our sight, we do not stand. Both of these are true, but the deeper insight belongs to God.

— Julian of Norwich  <link>

Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed.

— Corita Kent  <link>

Finite Disappointment, Infinite Hope

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.

— Martin Luther King Jr.  <link>

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

— Winston Churchill  <link>

On Problems

Our choicest plans have fallen through,
our airiest castles tumbled over,
because of lines we neatly drew
and later neatly stumbled over.

—Piet Hein  <link>