"For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a triumph, to turn oneâ€™s predicament into a human achievement."

-- Viktor E. Frankl

#Achievement Quotes #Tragedy Quotes #Matter Quotes

“And what if I fail?" "Ah! Then you'll have a story to tell.”

Source : Julie Orringer (2010). “The Invisible Bridge”, p.17, Vintage
“EACH DAY OF HUMAN life contains joy and anger, pain and pleasure, darkness and light, growth and decay. Each moment is etched with natureâ€™s grand design-do not try to deny or oppose the cosmic order of things.”
“My family didn't find out until I told them, which was when I won Penthouse Pet of the Year. They took it as well as I could have hoped. I am their daughter and they love me, so it was great when they didn't disown me.”
“We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman.”
“If you want to be financially-free, you need to become a different person than you are today and let go of whatever has held you back in the past.”
“Clinical training in psychoanalysis has a deficit. It teaches how to sit and think about what a person is saying and how to interpret it intellectually, but not how to be fully present to this person.”
“Part of the heartache of all missionary work is the bright promising convert who turns out to be a mere puffball, crumbling like a macaroon under the least pressure.”
“We're capable of understanding that someone has to drop an atomic bomb on a town of innocent civilians, but not that others have to cut up prostitutes who spread disease and moral depravity in the slums of London. Hence we call the former realism and the latter madness.”

Source : Jo Nesbo (2010). “The Snowman: Harry Hole 7”, p.245, Random House

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