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"High station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace."
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"Self-confident people Know that obstacles are only temporary setbacks."

"Do you ever feel like you have been stopped dead in your tracks? That you have fallen and can't get up? Or like you are stuck in a rut or wading in muck? Paralysis, inertia, and being stuck, can be disempowering and disabling. What is it going to take for you to restart your engines and get moving again?"

"A seed does not die because you buried it, neither does a warrior."

"In the furnace of affliction, we are refined and purified."

"Do not give up. Be strong!"

"A star does not cease to be a star because it is surrounded by darkness."

"When people try to bury you, remind yourself you are a seed."

"Sometimes, to escape a bad relationship and reclaim our lives, we have to break a piece of our heart off, like a wolf chews its leg off to escape a steel trap."

"It is not the loss that makes you a loser, but it is how you respond to it."

"If you are focused on your calling, the efforts of any adversary will prove powerless."
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"I think that [William] Faulkner and I each had to escape certain particulars of our lives, and we found salvation through words. I understand the Bible story of Babel so much better now. I think that moments of extremity, desires of escape, lead us to foreign languages--not those learned in schools, but those plucked from the human heart, the searing conditions of isolation. I did not have to be limited to my biography because of words, and I shared this with Faulkner, who invented new words and punctuation and expression and worlds. He utterly reshaped the world."

"And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing."
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