"If I had a formula for bypassing trouble I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favour. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it."

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"If I had a formula for bypassing trouble I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favour. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it."

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"It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."

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"Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other."

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"The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books."

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"A seed does not die because you buried it, neither does a warrior."

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"In the furnace of affliction, we are refined and purified."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Do not give up. Be strong!"

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"Problems, obstacles and difficulties are in themselves not a sufficient reason for a person to suffer defeat. It is possible to overcome any obstacle."

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"A star does not cease to be a star because it is surrounded by darkness."

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"When people try to bury you, remind yourself you are a seed."

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"Sometimes, to escape a bad relationship and reclaim our lives, we have to break a piece of our heart off, like a wolf chews its leg off to escape a steel trap."

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"Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated."

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"It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."

"It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen."

"Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other."

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"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions."

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"Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become."

"Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children."

"I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived."

"The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books."

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"Self-confident people Know that obstacles are only temporary setbacks."

"A seed does not die because you buried it, neither does a warrior."

"In the furnace of affliction, we are refined and purified."

"Do not give up. Be strong!"

"Problems, obstacles and difficulties are in themselves not a sufficient reason for a person to suffer defeat. It is possible to overcome any obstacle."

"A star does not cease to be a star because it is surrounded by darkness."

"When people try to bury you, remind yourself you are a seed."

"Sometimes, to escape a bad relationship and reclaim our lives, we have to break a piece of our heart off, like a wolf chews its leg off to escape a steel trap."

"Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated."