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"It is adversity that often creates beauty."
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"Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her."
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Personal Development
"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes."
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"Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us."
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Personal Development
"They're a group called The Spirit-crushers and their leader is known as The Almighty Spirit-crusher."
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Personal Development
"Only when we face the impossible, and experience the unbearable, do we find out who we truly are."
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"There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there."
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"You are unfortunate in my judgment, for you have never been unfortunate. You have passed through life with no antagonist to face you; no one will know what you were capable of, not even you yourself."
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"Trouble seems to follow me around, waiting to club me with a tire iron."
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Personal Development
"There were moments when it honestly seemed as if the world were conspiring against her."
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"What I really wanted to know, though, was what it was like to be a geisha? Where do you sleep? What do you eat? How do you have your hair done?"
Hair
"What I had to do was keep the story within certain limits of what was, of course, plausible."
Writing
"Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred."
Courage
"We can never flee the misery that is within us."
Courage
"I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it."
Pain
"I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha."
Work
"Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one."
Woman
"Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are."
Adversity
"It is confusing, because in this culture we really don't have anything that corresponds to geisha."
Cultural
"Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away."
Creativity
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