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I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
Author: Agatha Christie
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There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.
Author: Alexander Smith
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Calamity, n. A more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering.
Author: Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary
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I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.
Author: Andr? Gide
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It is always in the midst, in the epicenter, of your troubles that you find serenity.
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exup?ry, Wartime Writings 1939-1944, translated from French by Norah Purcell
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Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker.
Author: Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
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Suffering is above, not below. And everyone thinks that suffering is below. And everyone wants to rise.
Author: Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
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Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.
Author: Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
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Would you touch a nettle without being stung by it? take hold of it stoutly. Do the same to other annoyances, and hardly will any thing annoy you.
Author: Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
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When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something’s suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful.
Author: Barbara Bloom
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The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
Author: Bernard M. Baruch
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Diseases can be our spiritual flat tires – disruptions in our lives that seem to be disasters at the time but end by redirecting our lives in a meaningful way.
Author: Bernie S. Siegel
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Rock bottom is good solid ground, and a dead end street is just a place to turn around.
Author: Buddy Buie and J.R. Cobb, ‘Rock Bottom’ (song)
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We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them.
Author: Charles C. West
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But ah! disasters have their use; And life might e’en be too sun-shiny.
Author: Charles Stuart Calverley, Disaster, after Moore, stanza 5
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I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
Author: Colette
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Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom.
Author: Coventry Patmore
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I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I’ve bought a big bat. I’m all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!
Author: Dr. Seuss
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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Author: Edmund Burke, The Revolution in France, 1790
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They say a reasonable amount ‘o fleas is good fer a dog – keeps him from broodin’ over bein’ a dog, mebbe.
Author: Edward Westcott
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