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“Success by its very nature demands a period of overcoming, a process by which we become strong in broken places.”

Strong Process Broken Periods Demand Overcoming

Book:Daily Motivations for African-American Success: Including Inspirations from Famous African-American Achievers

Source: Daily Motivations for African-American Success: Including Inspirations from Famous African-American Achievers

“The Girl of the Period, sauntering before one down Broadway, is one panorama of awful surprises from top to toe. Her clothes characterize her. She never characterizes her clothes. She is upholstered, not ornamented. She is bundled, not draped. She is puckered, not folded. She struts, she does not sweep. She has not one of the attributes of nature nor of proper art. She neither soothes the eye like a flower, nor pleases it like a picture. She wearies it like a kaleidoscope. She is a meaningless dazzle of broken effects.”

Doe Art Eye Girl Effects Fashion Youth Flower Broken Periods Please Clothes Surprise Awful Attributes Meaningless Toes Broadway Sauntering Dazzle Kaleidoscope Panorama

Author:Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

“A good Dianetic auditor can take a broken-down, sorrow-drenched lady of thirty-eight and knock out her past periods of physical and mental pain and have on his hands somebody who appears to be twenty-five-and a bright, cheerful twenty-five at that.”

Hands Pain Past Five Broken Periods Sorrow Twenties Eight Thirty Cheerful Twenty Five Broken Down Auditors Thirty Eight Mental Pain

Book:Self Analysis

Source: Self Analysis

“Poor Knight! he really had two periods, the firsta dull man writing broken English, the seconda broken man writing dull English.”

Men Writing Two Poor Broken Periods Dull Knights Broken Man Broken English

Author:Vladimir Nabokov

“Everything is cyclical. Historical eras go through times of intense cynicism, broken by periods of intense idealism.”

Broken Periods Historical Intense Eras Cynicism Idealism Rough Times

Author:Lauren Groff