sad quotes about not being good enough

I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress. ~Andre Gide



Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain. ~J.K. Rowling



There is only one way in which a person acquires a new idea: by the combination or association of two or more ideas he already has into a new juxtaposition in such a manner as to discover a relationship among them of which he was not previously aware. ~Francis A. Cartier



I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. ~Charles Dickens



Man's destructive hand spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to adorn himself, he kills to attack, he kills to defend himself, he kills to instruct himself, he kills to amuse himself, he kills for the sake of killing. ~Josef de Maistre



Marriage ...the deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-longue. ~Mrs Patrick Campbell



It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. ~H.W. Shaw



The dog is a yes-animal, very popular with people who can't afford to keep a yes-man. ~Robertson Davies



The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face. ~Jack Nicklaus



A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. ~Jean Paul Richter



My poverty is not complete: it lacks me. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Your body is a temple, but only if you treat it as one. ~Astrid Alauda



No photographer is as good as the simplest camera. ~Edward Steichen



Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks. ~Jean Rhys



A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with "a sort of greedy enjoyment," as Marcel Proust said of those rooms of his old home whose air was "saturated with the bouquet of silence." ~Holbrook Jackson



Fear cannot give us the adrenaline to push forward until we realize it is the fear in us that holds us back. ~J Beard, @promoterofpeace



Michael W. Fox, vice-president of the Humane Society, said that, "to call an animal with whom you share your life a 'pet,' is reminiscent of men's magazines where you (a figure of speech, don't take it personally) have the Pet of the Month." It is supposed that the continued use of the word "pet" to designate dogs or cats threatens to reduce their level of respect to the current status of twentieth century North American women. Now that's radical. ~The McGill Red Herring



We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan into the fire. ~Eric Hoffer



I never would believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden. ~Richard Rumbold, 1685



Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration. ~Charles Dickens