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"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters."
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"When the storm rips you to pieces, you have to decide how to put yourself back together again."

"I don't believe in failure. It is just the opportunity to start again with better information."

"Some people are in such utter darkness that they will burn you just to see a light. Try not to take it personally."

"The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times."

"We only fall on our face to learn how to rise on our feet."

"Discouraging words should not weigh you down instead they should challenge you."

"Mrs. Allan's face was not the face of the girlbride whom the minister had brought to Avonlea five years before. It had lost some of its bloom and youthful curves, and there were fine, patient lines about eyes and mouth. A tiny grave in that very cemetery accounted for some of them; and some new ones had come during the recent illness, now happily over, of her little son. But Mrs. Allan's dimples were as sweet and sudden as ever, her eyes as clear and bright and true; and what her face lacked of girlish beauty was now more than atoned for in added tenderness and strength."

"You must never surrender to any defeat."

"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but I might be a vampire so I don't give a shit. I'll heal."

"In times of adversity we develop our senses of creativity and strength of our souls."
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"When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!'."

"No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen."

"It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting."

"Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed."

"Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them."

"To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete."
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