so you think that you're a failure

So you think that you're a failure, do you? 

Well, you probably are. What's wrong with that? 

In the first place, if you've any sense at all 

you must have learned by now that we pay 

just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats.

 Go ahead and fail. 

But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style.

 A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success.

 Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. 

That may be the only way any of us will ever be free.

~ Tom Robbins

from Even Cowgirls get the Blues

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Our lives are not as limited as we think they are; 

the world is a wonderfully weird place;

 consensual reality is significantly flawed; 

no institution can be trusted, 

but love does work; 

all things are possible; 

and we all could be happy and fulfilled

 if we only had the guts to be truly free

 and the wisdom to shrink our egos 

and quit taking ourselves so damn seriously.

 

 

 

— Tom Robbins

 

 

 

Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.

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The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, 

because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and 

start paying attention to the universe. 

Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.

 When you're unhappy, 

you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. 

You get to take yourself oh so very seriously.

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~ Tom Robbins

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