Life has a way of overgrowing ...

Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins.
Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins.
 Edith Wharton

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
 Dave East
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
You have to have the service mentality in the sense that you subjugate your own ego, and you subjugate a large part of your own life to really helping other people, being successful on their behalf.
 Herb Kelleher
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Quotes from the same author

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
 Edith Wharton
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
 Edith Wharton
If only wed stop trying to be happy wed have a pretty good time.
 Edith Wharton
...I have always lived on contrasts! To me the only death is monotony. Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
 Edith Wharton
And he felt himself oppressed by this creation of factitious purity, so cunningly manufactured by a conspiracy of mothers and aunts and grandmothers and long-dead ancestresses, because it was supposed to be what he wanted, what he had a right to, in order that he might exercise his lordly pleasure in smashing it like an image made of snow.
 Edith Wharton