Sad are only those who understand

Sad are only those who understand

You've got to love this business. You have to be able to take rejection.

You've got to love this business. You have to be able to take rejection.

I think all great innovations are built on rejections.

I think all great innovations are built on rejections.

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.

Puberty is a phase... fifteen years of rejection is a lifestyle. [Stanford]

Puberty is a phase... fifteen years of rejection is a lifestyle. [Stanford]

We look before and after,
And pine for what is not,
Our sincerest laughter
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We look before and after,
And pine for what is not,
Our sincerest laughter
With some pain is fraught:
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

Dear to us are those who love us. . . but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for read more

Dear to us are those who love us. . . but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit . . .

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.