#anna quindlen

[thoughtkick]

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

[quotefeeling]

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

[perfectquote]

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

[nobeerreviews]

A life of unremitting caution, without the carefree - or even, occasionally, the careless - may turn out to be half a life.

-- Anna Quindlen

(Taormina, Italy)

[perfectfeelings]

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

© Shirley Baker.

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Remember yourself, from the days when you were younger and rougher and wilder, more scrawl than straight line. Remember all of yourself, the flaws and faults as well as the many strengths. Carl Jung once said, “If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance toward oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbors, for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.”

- Anna Quindlen commencement speech at Mount Holyoke College Whiskey river

[sorryforthebonyelbows]

Anna Quindlen

Franz Kafka

Shannon Wiersbitzky, What Flowers Remember

Anna de Noailles, tr. By Norman R. Sharpiro, from “Your Hidden Fleshly Grace"

Shirley Jackson, “Raising Demons"

Katherine Paterson

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La cosa che è veramente difficile, e anche davvero incredibile, è rinunciare ad essere perfetti ed iniziare il lavoro di diventare sé stessi.

Anna Quindlen

Buongiorno