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The real test is not whether you avoid failure, because you won't. it's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it. . .
-Barack Obama
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The Real Test Is Not Whether You

Barack Obama
The real test is not whether you avoid failure, because you won't. it's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it. . .
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Patience Perseverance Real

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Making your mark on the world is hard. if it were easy, everybody would do it. but it's not. it takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. the real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. it's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.
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Dear god," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. let me be gay; let me be sad. let me be cold; let me be warm. let me be hungry...have too much to eat. let me be ragged or well dressed. let me be sincere - be deceitful. let me be truthful; let me be a liar. let me be honorable and let me sin. only let me be something every blessed minute. and when i sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.
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The difference between guilt and shame is very clear--in theory. we feel guilty for what we do. we feel shame for what we are. a person feels guilt because he did something wrong. a person feels shame because he is something wrong. we may feel guilty because we lied to our mother. we may feel shame because we are not the person our mother wanted us to be.
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Failure's relative. i've always felt, even early on, if i lose the freedom to fail, something's not right about that. it's how you treat failure, too. there's something to learn from it. i've had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures: what kind of failure was it? a failure because it's misunderstood by others? a failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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You are putting yourself in serious danger...' i think that i preferred to put myself in serious danger rather than confront my shame. my shame at not having become someone, the shame of not having made my parents proud after all the sacrifices they had made for me. the shame of having become a mediocre nihilist.
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