"The unavoidable has touched the life of every human being on the face of the earth. Some have rebounded, others have given up--but all of us have felt the wings of tragedy brushing against us."

Suffering, Tragedy, Life, Resilience

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"The unavoidable has touched the life of every human being on the face of the earth. Some have rebounded, others have given up--but all of us have felt the wings of tragedy brushing against us."

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"Oddly, the burned hand didn't seem to hurt much anymore; it was only numb. It would have been better if there had been pain. Pain was at least real."

Stephen King, American Author

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"As he took them in his arms, the crying of the babies permeated the night like a trail of blood calling out to a predator."

Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Spanish Novelist

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"Also, I'm angry. I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why does it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to bite?"

Stephen King, American Author

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"The man who was once starved may revenge himself upon the world not by stealing just once, or by stealing only what he needs, but by taking from the world an endless toll in payment of something irreplaceable, which is the lost faith."

Anais Nin, American Author

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"More commonly suffering breaks people, crushes them, and is simply unilluminating. You see how gruesomely human beings are destroyed by pain, when they have the added torment of losing their humanity first, so that their death is a total defeat..."

Saul Bellow, American Novelist

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"We must love one another or die."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

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"For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

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"It was the sound of a thousand hungry children crying, ten thousand widows tearing their hair over their husband's graves, a chorus of angels singing the last dirge on the day of God's death."

Christopher Moore, American Novelist

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"Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"There are people who have an appetite for grief pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"Suffering occurs when we want other people to love us in the way we imagine we want to be loved, and not in the way that love should manifest itself--free and untrammeled, guiding us with its force and driving us on."

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"There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure."

Fear

"The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever."

History

"Certain things in life simply have to be experienced -and never explained. Love is such a thing."

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"People just can't cope with happiness."

Psychology

"I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life."

Motivation

"All religions lead to the same God, and all deserve the same respect. Anyone who chooses a religion is also choosing a collective way for worshipping and sharing the mysteries. Nevertheless, that person is the only one responsible for his or her actions along the way and has no right to shift responsibility for any personal decisions on to that religion."

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"The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them."

Simplicity

"If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man."

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"People need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want."

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