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"Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise."
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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."

"It's not my story anymore: whenever I speak about the past now, I feel as if I were talking about something that has nothing to do with me. All that remains in the present are the voice, the presence, and the importance of fulfilling my mission. I don't regret difficulties I experienced; I think they helped me to become the person I am today, I feel the way a warrior must feel after years of training; he doesn't remember the details of everything he learned, but he knows how to strike when the time is right."

"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 make name for yourself when you overcome pain, weakness, laziness and ignorance."

"You are a failure not the time when you are defeated.. but when you give up fighting."
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"It isn't a natural thing to keep on worrying about the morality of one's material prosperity. These are proclivities superinduced by modern conditions of the conscience. There is a natural resistance in every healthy human being to such distressful heart-searchings."

"We are to turn our backs for a space upon the insistent examination of the thing that is, and face towards the freer air, the ampler spaces of the thing that perhaps might be."

"The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the painin the world had found a voice."

"Roman Catholicism is a broken and utterly desperate thing, capable only of malignant mischief in our awakening world."

"Within he felt that faint stirring of derision for the whole business of life which is the salt of the American mentality. Outwardly they are sentimental and enthusiastic and inwardly they are profoundly cynical."

"Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind."
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