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To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
Author: Oscar Wilde
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We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley, ‘Ode to a Sky Lark’
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If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim.
Author: Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
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Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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People are resilient. After all, every person born has recovered from nine months on life support.
Author: Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
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Sometimes I think my life would make a great TV movie. It even has the part where they say, ‘Stand by. We are experiencing temporary difficulties.’
Author: Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
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Sometimes in tragedy we find our life’s purpose – the eye sheds a tear to find its focus.
Author: Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
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When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars.
Author: Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
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If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.
Author: Robert Fulghum
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If the thunder is not loud, the peasant forgets to cross himself.
Author: Russian Proverb
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
Author: Socrates
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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
Author: Sophocles
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Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargained for.
Author: Stanislaus I, Maxims
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Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
Author: Voltaire
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There is in every true woman’s heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
Author: Washington Irving, The Sketch Book, 1820
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Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That’s how he finds that he can bear anything.
Author: William Faulkner
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Everybody ought to do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
Author: William James
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