A Quote by Mary Ruefle

My happiness is marred only by my failure to attain it.

Mary Ruefle

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Attain Failure Happiness Only

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Mary Ruefle
American - Poet
Born: April 16, 1952

As man is so constituted that it is utterly impossible for him to attain happiness save by seeking the happiness of others, so does it seem to be of the nature of things that individuals and classes can obtain their own just rights only by struggling for the rights of others.

Henry George

All of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their fullest extent. ... And every life must be chalked up at least a partial failure when it does not succeed in reaching its inherent destiny.

Smiley Blanton

A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions

Aristotle

Success and happiness spring from facing failure after failure with enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

Retreating from the world will not liberate you. Happiness is not found in a secluded forest hut or isolated cave. Enlightenment comes when you connect to the world. Only when you truly connect with everyone and everything else do you become Enlightened. Only by going deeply and fully into the world do you attain liberation.

Guo Jun

I teach you both effort and effortlessness, because unless you attain to effortless-effort, unless you attain to active passivity, unless you attain to a singing-silence - they look paradoxical - unless you attain to an unmoving dance, you have not attained.

Rajneesh

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn't make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.

Joyce Meyer

What if you have a genuine and captivating beauty that is marred only by your striving?

Stasi Eldredge

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

George Eliot

There is only one kind of failure I cannot tolerate: the failure to risk failure.

Richard Marcinko

Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost.

Johann Most

The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world.

Joseph Butler

If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness.

Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse

There is no possibility of failure because you only control your actions and they only influence the probable evolution of your life over stochastic future paths. There is no failure, only feedback.