Failure is not falling down but staying down.
Falling in love is the beginning of all wisdom, all sympathy, all compassion, all art, all religion; and in it's larger sense is the one thing in life worth doing.
But we fall only that we might rise, Alfred. All of us fall; all of us, as you say, screw up. Falling is not important. It is how we get up after the fall that's important.
I love the expression that 'When your Bible is falling apart, the man isn't. '
. . . all that is carried along by the stream's silvery cascade, rhythmically falling from the mountain, carried by its own current-- carried where?
Falling in love is not the only adventure worthy of a young woman.
The best part of falling is getting back up again.
The world is being created every minute, and the world is falling to pieces every minute
The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
Is it possible that literacy standards are falling because young Australians are growing up in a culture in which they can be entertained and informed, and in which they can communicate effectively, without having to master any but the most rudimentary literacy skills?
It's not the falling down that counts. It's the getting up.
If we've been a little more successful than other people, is because we always realised that the school of life was always open, and if you were not learning more you are falling behind.
You definitely have to do other things when you know your shot isn't falling. You can't just depend on knocking down the three-ball.
I got a book token for Christmas and exchanged it for a book called A History of Art, and that book (which I still have-battered and falling to pieces) became more precious to me than any Bible.
Millions of people are falling out of the middle class into the ranks of the poor.
She couldn’t picture anyone falling madly in love with such a person as Fish. What a name, Fish. . . Fish: think cold, slippery, detached. Benedict: think dry scholarly monk from the Dark Ages. Denniston: think English preparatory school, stolid country squire. Nothing about his name sounded the least bit romantic.
Gutta cavat lapidem, non vi sed saepe cadendo. (The drop excavates the stone, not with force but by falling often. )
You see, you closed your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too--even when you’re in the dark. Even when you’re falling.
Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do - but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it.
There was a brief silence. I think I heard snow falling.