"Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called Ego." “To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.” "This thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.” "There are no regrets in life, just lessons."Īs Freezing persons, recollect the Snow –įirst – Chill – then Stupor – then the letting go –" “The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. "The mountain seems no more a soulless thing,Ī Presence crouched, enormous and austere,īefore whose feet the mighty waters mourn." "Sorrow is my own yard where the new grass flames as it has flamed often before but not with the cold fire that closes round me this year." It is in falling short of your own goals that you will surpass those who exceed theirs."
Find fault with yourself and not with others. Harm comes to those who know only victory and do not know defeat. "Patience is the foundation of eternal peace. Where hope is coldest, and despair most fits."Īnd make us lose the good we oft might win, "Oft expectation fails, and most oft there "Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been." You have no rose without a thorn the diligent picker will avoid the pricks and gather the flower." "LIFE is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy. "In the end… We only regret the chances we didn’t take"įor the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, "I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience." "If you try to please audiences, uncritically accepting their tastes, it can only mean that you have no respect for them" "I feel your pain the pain in knowing this has "Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.Īnd could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy " Than that you should remember and be sad."
"Better by far you should forget and smile I made the effort and collected all quotes from "Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy".