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"Well, I agree that 'trial and error' is a pretty pessimistic name for it. And maybe that's what it is most of the time. But I think the point is that it's not just try-error. Most of the time, it's try-error-try."
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"In order to fulfil our life mission we also need to develop perseverance."

"Life is a personal race. Run the race of life with all endurance."

"Every worthwhile accomplishment big or little has its stages of drudgery and triumph a beginning a struggle and a victory."

"It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them."

"A man going straight towards his goals overcomes difficulties and obstacles in his paths, and turns them into benefits."

"Sometimes even to live is an act of courage."

"The gospel of the kingdom talks about perseverance."

"Day and night, their frail and crippled ships defy the tempest."

"You can strive in life with courage, faith and hope."

"One is to cross this ocean in the form of obstinacy. We are standing on this side of obstinacy and we have to go to the other side. If someone becomes instrumental in removing your obstinacy; do not be disturbed about it, consider him to be extremely beneficial and undergo that experience with equanimity."
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"Her mind is an unquiet one, words and thoughts and impulses constantly crashing into each other."

"It doesn't work, she continues, unclasping her hands, smoothing her skirt. "What you're feeling right now doesn't work. You can't wander around and think the wandering will call them back. Believe me. I know you don't want to hear the long view, but let me tell you. You are so young. I know it's none of my business. But still."

"We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough."

"Because that's the thing about mean people: They make you think that the world will never work, that there are divides that you will fall into if you approach. It takes a whole lot of good people to fill in the breach created by a single mean one."

"I had never really thought of marriages as things that involved liking. I had just assumed this man-woman arrangement was yet another adult quirk, like flossing."

"O Lord, as I walk through the valley of the shadow of doubt, at least let mewear a Walkman..."
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