Pooja Shetty

“Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result. It’s vulnerability that breeds with self-doubt and then is escalated, often deliberately, by fear.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“Presented with new information, the brain creates new connections and is revitalized. This is why it is so important to expose yourself to change, even if stepping outside your comfort zone means feeling a bit of anxiety.”
― Hector Garcia Puigcerver, Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life

“Don’t aim at success—the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“Consciousness of the bad is an essential prerequisite to the promotion of the good.”
― Khushwant Singh, Train to Pakistan