Tris Quotes (page 246)

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• wishes
• moments
• miracle

I palliate the sufferings of others. yes I see myself as softening the blows, dissolving acids, neutralizing poisons, every moment of the day. I try to fulfill the wishes of others, to perform miracles. I exert myself performing miracles. Anais Nin

• crazy
• enough
• spirits

He was like me - a kindred spirit crazy enough to keep on trying. Octavia Butler

• feeling
• sympathy
• drinking

And the more I drink the more I feel it. That's why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling in drink.... I drink so that I may suffer twice as much! Fyodor Dostoevsky

• motivational
• giving
• time

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is to try just one more time. Thomas Edison

• love failure
• best
• chance

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it. Debbi Fields

• tired
• thinking
• watch

Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fault. Louisa May Alcott

• expectation
• dead
• meanness

Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead. Kurt Vonnegut

• fear
• integrity
• reality

There are things than cannot ever occur with any precision. They are too big and too magnificent to be contained in mere facts. They are merely trying to occur, they are checking whether the ground of reality can carry them. And they quickly withdraw, fearing to loose their integrity in the frailty of realization. Bruno Schulz

• quitting
• tried
• tries

You have not failed until you quit trying. Gordon B. Hinckley

• just
• whether
• filled

I have filled 3 Mead notebooks trying to figure out whether it was Them or Just Me. David Foster Wallace

• alone
• difficult
• solve

When you surrender, the problem ceases to exist. Try to solve it, or conquer it, and you only set up more resistance. . . . The most difficult thing to admit, and to realize with one's whole being, is that you alone control nothing. . . . Henry Miller

• heart
• world
• hearted

Instead of clearing his own heart the zealot tries to clear the world. Joseph Campbell

• to live
• world
• manly

For to Ade,...the holy man was the whole mad, the man of integrity, who not only tried to change the world, but to live in it as it was. Dorothy Day

• learning
• doings
• just

You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast, which is what I tried to do. Jane Fonda

• ruling
• rules
• accomplished

There are no rules here -- we're trying to accomplish something. Thomas Edison