I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.
How close the sexes sometimes come to one another. It is as much a matter of behaviour and the spere in which they move that separates the masculine part of humanity from the feminine.
Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals ... except the weasel.
Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers.
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.
That was the worst part about having cancer, sometimes: The physical evidence of disease separates you from other people.
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
It’s a secondhand world we’re born into. What is novel to us is only so because we’re newborn, and what we cannot see, that has come before- what our parents have seen and been and done- are the hand-me-downs we begin to wear as swaddling clothes, even as we ourselves are naked. The flaw runs through us, implicating us in its imperfection even as it separates us, delivers us onto opposite sides of a chasm. It is both terribly beautiful and terribly sad, but it is, finally, the fault in the universe that gives birth to us all.