Truman Capote Quote – Flavor of Success

“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” – Truman Capote
Read more“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” – Truman Capote
Read more“All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another […]
Read more“If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.” – Keith Richards
Read more“We must fight the forces that oppose our becoming whole; we must find our way through difficult and unfamiliar territory to our true home.” ~ Eugene Peterson
Read more“Imagine that the whole world belongs to you. The birch trees in New Hampshire’s White Mountains are yours, and so are the cirrus clouds in the western sky at dusk and the black sand on the beaches of Hawaii’s Big Island. You own everything, my dear sovereign — the paintings in all the museums of the world, as well as […]
Read more“A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.” – Jane Austen
Read more“These three things – autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward – are, most people will agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.” – Gladwell
Read more“You are going to have to give and give and give, or there’s no reason for you to be writing. You have to give from the deepest part of yourself, and you are going to have to go on giving, and the giving is going to have to be its own reward. There is no cosmic importance to your getting […]
Read more“Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.” – Joseph Campbell
Read more“There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown helpless about them.” – Clare Boothe Luce
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