Two Qualifications

Benjamin Franklin, the scientist, had known the rigidity of poverty in his early years. Due to his poverty he could not even have a proper education.

Hearing that there was a vacancy in a school, he went there for an interview. The school manager asked him: "Have you any higher education?" 

"No." 

"Have you a degree in any subject?" 

"No." 

"Have you any teaching experience?" 

"No."

"Then what qualifications do you have?" asked the manger annoyed. 

"For the time being I have only two qualifications. The first one is that I am the 14th child in a family of 17 children. The second is that I am struggling for even a single square meal a day." 

Instead of being beaten by hardships in life, be prepared to beat them.

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Nothing binds you except your thoughts, 

Nothing limits you except your fear, 

And nothing controls you except your beliefs. 

-Marianne Williamson