"Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome."

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Source : Fannie Flagg (2013). “The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion: A Novel”, p.335, Random House

Fannie Flagg

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“The new buzz word in Silicon Valley is "integration". Work-life "balance" is very 2.0. All these women share ways in which they integrate their family life and work. Facebook's head of Global Solutions, Carolyn Everson, for example, takes her children along on her business trips once a quarter. They meet her clients, visit new places and get a better understanding of what mom does when she isn't at home with them.”

Source : Source: www.glamour.com
“There was a piano in my house, and my brother had taken lessons when I was a kid. I don't remember this, but my mom told me she came home one day and I had learned everything he had studied for a year, and I was playing it on the piano.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Cuba is such a beautiful country, and everywhere you go, there's music and people dancing - especially in Havana.”
“There's always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There's an underestimation of your opponent and an overestimation of your own abilities. This is compatible with being rich and powerful, the idea that we were blessed by God because we deserve to be blessed.”
“Why do you keep reading a book? Usually to find out what happens. Why do you give up and stop reading it? There may be lots of reasons. But often the answer is you don't care what happens. So what makes the difference between caring and not caring? The author's cruelty. And the reader's sympathy...it takes a mean author to write a good story.”

Source : FaceBook post by Thierry Henry from Oct 10, 2012
“A slave stands infront of Allah on two occasions. The first during salah, and secondly on the Day of Judgment. Whoseover stands correctly in the first, the second standing will be made easier for him. And whosoever, disregards the first standing, the second standing will be extremely difficult.”
“And no matter how good you are you have to work at it. It's non-stop every day, every day. The best the offensive line feels is when the season starts.”

Source : Source: www.post-gazette.com
“Resistance to revelation, resistance to becoming conscious of all that dwells within us - high and low, light and dark - is the anti-change factor. It is also the mainspring of all our psychological fears.”

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