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"You can only appreciate being up when you know what it's like to have been down."
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"Thank you adversity. Oh, how we stretch and grow in the shadows of darkness just to reach the light."
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Personal Development
"The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity."
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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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Personal Development
"It is adversity that often creates beauty."
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Personal Development
"If man could write his own fate, he would have designed his journey to be without obstacles. Yet all obstacles come with valuable lessons designed just for you and only you. Suffering is imposed on us time and again so that one day we would become brave wise masters. That is, a strong being who is confidently aware of their intended direction in life, and fearlessly adding value to the world and their future."
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"Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not."
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"Bad things bring out the real you, the person hidden beneath all those layers of comfort."
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Personal Development
"Fire tries gold misery tries brave men."
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Personal Development
"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant."
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"We can never flee the misery that is within us."
Courage
"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
"I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it."
Pain
"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
"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
"Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred."
Courage
"What I had to do was keep the story within certain limits of what was, of course, plausible."
Writing
"I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck."
Luck
"Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away."
Creativity
"You know, the men go to tea houses with the expectation that they will have a nice quiet evening and not read about it the next morning in the newspaper."
Man
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