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"I've always had the sense that my life is run by other people. Except for a few years after Martin died. Those were the toughest years, I was alone with my children, I had to cope by myself. Complete poverty. You won't believe this, but nowadays when I look back, those are my happiest years."
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"Self-confident people Know that obstacles are only temporary setbacks."
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"Do you ever feel like you have been stopped dead in your tracks? That you have fallen and can't get up? Or like you are stuck in a rut or wading in muck? Paralysis, inertia, and being stuck, can be disempowering and disabling. What is it going to take for you to restart your engines and get moving again?"
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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."
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"Do not give up. Be strong!"
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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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"It is not the loss that makes you a loser, but it is how you respond to it."
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"If you are focused on your calling, the efforts of any adversary will prove powerless."
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"The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness."
Happiness

"The physical contact with people who struck and trampled and killed one another seemed far worse to him than a solitary death in the purity of the waters."
Death

"It was the incommunicable scent of this country, its intangible essence, that she had brought along with her to France."
Memory

"People who shout joy from the rooftops are often the saddest of all."
Perception

"The termites of reduction have always gnawed away at life: even the greatest love ends up as a skeleton of feeble memories."
Love

"A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea."
Creativity

"Revolution in Love'. Can you tell me what you mean by that? Do you want free love as against bourgeois marriage, or monogamy as against bourgeois promiscuity?"
Relationship

"Optimism is the opium of the people."
People

"Jealousy is like a raging toothache. One cannot do anything when one is jealous, not even sit down. Once can only come and go. Back and forth."
Emotion

"How goodness heightens beauty!"
Beauty
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