"It's the circumstances that create fear. How you respond is all you can control. Concentrate on that, and you'll always succeed."

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Source : Steve Berry (2015). “The Cotton Malone Series 9-Book Bundle”, p.1754, Ballantine Books

Steve Berry

#Succeed Quotes #Circumstances Quotes

“Girls developed eating disorders when our culture developed a standard of beauty that they couldn't obtain by being healthy. When unnatural thinness became attractive, girls did unnatural things to be thin.”

Source : Mary Pipher (2005). “Reviving Ophelia”, p.165, Penguin
“Now a lot has changed and I can separate a lot of things.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I profoundly admire Aldous Huxley, both for his philosophy and uncompromising sincerity. But I disagree with his advocacy of 'the chemical opening of doors into the Other World', and with his belief that drugs can procure 'what Catholic theologians call a gratuitous grace'. Chemically induced hallucinations, delusions and raptures may be frightening or wonderfully gratifying; in either case they are in the nature of confidence tricks played on one's own nervous system.”
“I grew up in Baltimore. And yes, I am a big sports fan, especially when it comes to my local teams.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If you cannot see the bright side of life, polish the dull side.”
“According to Buddhist practice, there are three stages or steps. The initial stage is to reduce attachment towards life. The second stage is the elimination of desire and attachment to this samsara. Then in the third stage, self-cherishing is eliminated”
“Good work instead of long prayers.”
“We all have a family, whether we like it or not; we all come from somewhere, and there's something strange in the way you have, with siblings, two or three personalities yoked together for life. You grow up thinking those family relationships are set in stone and then you get older and realize they're not. They're always shifting.”

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