"My dad sacrificed many things in life for me. He abandoned a very promising and lucrative career of an army officer just so that he could continue helping me with my chess and accompanying me to tournaments."

-- Alexandra Kosteniuk

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“May I not forget that poverty and riches are of the spirit. Though the world knows me not, may my thoughts and actions be such as will keep me friendly with myself.”

Source : Max Ehrmann (2017). “The Desiderata of Happiness”, p.11, Souvenir Press Ltd
“Music for us is about articulating the feelings you can't put into words.”
“I am the batsman and the bat, / I am the bowler and the ball, / The umpire, the pavilion cat, / The roller, pitch, and stumps, and all.”

Source : 'Brahma'.
“Insomnia: A contagious disease often transmitted from babies to parents.”
“There are no bad foods, only bad food habits.”

Source : Alton Brown (2012). “I'm Just Here for More Food: Food x Mixing + Heat = Baking”, p.21, Abrams
“That's universal - we all want to bring every good thing to our children. But what's not universal is our ability to provide every good thing.”
“If we understood the world, we would realize that there is a logic of harmony underlying its manifold apparent dissonances.”

Source : "Living Biographies of Great Composers" by Henry Thomas and Dana Lee Thomas, Garden City (NY): Blue Ribbon, (p. 309), 1946.
“There has been a whole lot. Just to combine a musical career with the last year on high school was enough as it is. I didn't think it should fare as well as it did, but apparently it did.”

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