It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt
you to the heart: the one to slander read more

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt
you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get
the news to you.

Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.

Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than read more

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

What is the source of sadness, but feebleness of the mind? What giveth it power but the want of reason? read more

What is the source of sadness, but feebleness of the mind? What giveth it power but the want of reason? Rouse thyself to the combat, and she quitteth the field before thou strikest.

Large offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood

Large offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, read more

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

We keep going back, stronger, not weaker, because we will not allow rejection to beat us down. It will only read more

We keep going back, stronger, not weaker, because we will not allow rejection to beat us down. It will only strengthen our resolve. To be successful there is no other way.

Smile, even if it's a sad smile, because sadder than a sad smile is the sadness of not knowing how read more

Smile, even if it's a sad smile, because sadder than a sad smile is the sadness of not knowing how to smile.