Quote of the Week

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
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"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all -- in which case you have failed by default." 

-- J. K. Rowling