“And we fall as if we never really mattered”

Rosa: The Death of a Composer

Variant: Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Source: The Citizen of the World, Or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friends in the Country, by Dr. Goldsmith

1990s, Long Walk to Freedom (1995)

Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago

Source: The Elephant Vanishes

Variant: The bottom line is that we never fall for the people we're supposed to.
Source: My Sister's Keeper

27 July 2005
Additional remarks about the proposed Reconciliation and Unity Commission

John Boone
Red Mars (1992)
Context: The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing. X claims a, Y claims b. They make arguments to support their claims with any number of points. But when their listeners remember the discussion, what matters is simply that X believes a and Y believes b. People then form their judgment on what they think of X and Y.

Fingers Pointing Towards The Moon (1958)