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"I have discovered that sitting still leaves little spaces for the grief to get in, so I stay busy."
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"Faith and hope remove worry, anxiety, and fear. Human life becomes very painful and burdensome if a person has no one to trust and love. Then why should it bother an atheist, if a mother who just has lost her child, takes up a doll of baby Jesus or Krishna and pampers it like her own child, while in the process she actually succeeds in coping with her traumatic situation!"
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"Some of us have resolved to escape into drunkenness before the sleep takes us."
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"Nature has endowed us with some measure of insanity to cope with the realities of daily life."
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Personal Development

"Humor was a good way to hide the pain."
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"In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping."
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"I think I need a drink.''Almost everybody does only they don't know it."
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"I remembered Owen telling me how music had saved him in Phoenix, that it drowned everything out, and it was the same for me now. As long as I had something to listen to, I could blur the things I didn't want to think about, if not block them out completely."
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"Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won."
Conflict


"Does it make you brave to stick your hand in a bear's mouth? Would you do it again just because you didn't die?"
Challenge


"Defying the Dark One no matter the length of his shadow. We will live, that defiance said. We will love and we will hope."
Strength


"In Shinear, a woman [is] safe anywhere, any time-except from Trollocs and Myrddraal, of course-and any man [will] die to see it so."
Culture


"He hadn't asked to become a leader, but did that absolve him of responsibility? People needed him. The world needed him. And, with an understanding that cooled in him like molten rock forming into a shape, he realized that he wanted to lead. If someone had to be lord of these people, he wanted to do it himself. Because doing it yourself was the only way to see that it was done right."
Growth


"Death comes to us all, we can only choose how to face it when it comes."
Mortality


"I'd run. But maybe you can't run. Think of that, too.' His yellow eyes seemed to look inward, and he sounded tired. 'Sometimes you can't run."
Conflict


"Advice! Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are." "That is probably why you make such a bad job of it."
Society


"But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice."
Morality


"Nynaeve shook her head. She supposed it was one way to find money for the poor. Simply rob anyone who was not poor. Of course, that would just make everyone poor in the end, but it might work for a time."
Society
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