Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs. Malcolm Forbes Former US Sec. of State once said There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation,hard work and learning from Failure. All successful people failed many times b4 they achieve success. They were rejected, laughed and even ridiculed. They carried on in spite of. Always bearin in mind that the failures in life are nothing more than potholes on the road to success and not stop signs. G.K. Chesterton, once wrote,And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain there would be no rainbow. Richard Bach wrote a book that was rejected by 26 publishers. The hero in the story is a seagull. The book is less than 10,000 words. Only one editor from Macmillan saw the potential of this book and persuaded her company to publish it. The company printed a mere 7,500 copies. Another publisher said it will never make it to paperback. Although it took 2 years to reach the New York Times bestseller list where it remained for 38 weeks. It was featured on the cover of Time mag Nov 13th. It sold more than 1million copies in US alone. Within 5 years it had sold more than seven million copies in US and 30 million worldwide. This novel hit the #1 on both fiction and non-fiction charts breaking all hard cover sales since Gone With the Wind. The book Jonathan Livingston Seagull. There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, theyre necessary to reach places we were chosen to go. Richard Bach
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