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"But only a person in the depths of despair neglected to look beyond winter to the spring that inevitably followed, bringing back color and life and hope."
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"I had to break to pieces, so I could reassemble even stronger."

"Comport yourself with grace under pressure."

"Even the smartest and most successful of people will experience lower self-confidence occasionally, but the difference is that they deliberately shift out of it and refuse to stay there."

"As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course."

"If you can't forget about all the great pains you've endured, as many of us can't, at least take some time to celebrate the fact that you've somehow kept going, in spite of it all. And you've certainly kept growing, because of it all."

"What cannot be altered must be borne not blamed."

"People give up. People settle. People persevere. And you can do all three if you're smart enough."

"You are a failure not the time when you are defeated.. but when you give up fighting."

"You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you."

"Pure heart begets pure thoughts."
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"My mind cannot grasp forever,' she told him. 'There must surely be an end somewhere. But the big question is-what it beyond the end?"

"Was he a pleasant man hiding behind a mask of seeming carelessness or an unpleasant man hiding behind a mask of charm & smiles? Or like most humans, was he a dizzying mix of contradictory charactersticks?"

"But that is what life is all about, he said. 'It is about dreaming and making those dreams come true with effort and determination - and love."

"Could a love of that magnitude die? If it was true love, could it ever die? Was there such a thing as true love?"

"There were certain moments upon which the whole of the future course of one's life might turn. And almost inevitably they popped out at one without any warning at all, leaving one with no time to consider or engage in a reasoned debate with oneself. One had to make a split second decision, and much depended upon it. Perhaps everything."

"The longing for something beyond yourself, beyond anything you have ever known or dreamed of?"

"But a mother-son relationship is not a coequal one, is it? He is lonely with only you just as you are lonely with only him."
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