"It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success." ― Havelock Ellis Topic(s): Success More From Havelock Ellis "I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness." "In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists." "Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry." More In Success "In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there’s such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success."― Bill Gates "We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success."― Henry David Thoreau "A housing renaissance has begun. This may be hard to believe after the dizzying, six-year-long crash in home sales, construction and house prices. But housing turned the corner last year, and it will take off in 2013."― Mark Zandi