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“There is no perfect fit when you’re looking for the next big thing to do. You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around.” — Sheryl Sandberg

“Don’t be intimidated by what you don’t know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.” — Sara Blakely

“The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.” — John D. Rockefeller Jr

“Stay positive and happy. Work hard and don’t give up hope. Be open to criticism and keep learning. Surround yourself with happy, warm and genuine people.” – Tena Desae

“Commitment, belief and positive attitude are all important if you’re going to be a success, whether you’re in sports, in business or, as in my case, anthropology.” – Donald Johanson

“Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.” – Hans Selye

“Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.” – Bernard Williams

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” – T.S. Eliot

“Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.” – Paul Lewis Boese

“You’re only here for a short visit. Don’t hurry, don’t worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.” – Walter Hagen

“Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one’s ideas, to take a calculated risk – and to act.” – Andre Malraux

“Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.” – Aldous Huxley

“Man is never perfect nor contented.” – Jules Verne

“All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.” – Khalil Gibran

“If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.” – Saint Augustine

“There’s no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.” – Jack Welch

“Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.” – Horace

“How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. “ – Wayne Dyer

“A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author. “ – Oscar Wilde

“The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.” – Carl Rogers