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"One of the things he had learned in life, and which he hoped he could rely on, was that a greater pain drives out a lesser one. A strained muscle disappears before toothache, toothache disappears before a crushed finger. He hoped - it was his only hope now - that the pain of cancer, the pain of dying , would drive out the pains of love. It did not seem likely."
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"Self-confident people Know that obstacles are only temporary setbacks."
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Personal Development
"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?"
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Personal Development
"A seed does not die because you buried it, neither does a warrior."
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Personal Development
"In the furnace of affliction, we are refined and purified."
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Personal Development
"Do not give up. Be strong!"
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Personal Development
"A star does not cease to be a star because it is surrounded by darkness."
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Personal Development
"When people try to bury you, remind yourself you are a seed."
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Personal Development
"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."
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Personal Development
"It is not the loss that makes you a loser, but it is how you respond to it."
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Personal Development
"If you are focused on your calling, the efforts of any adversary will prove powerless."
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"One of the things he had learned in life, and which he hoped he could rely on, was that a greater pain drives out a lesser one. A strained muscle disappears before toothache, toothache disappears before a crushed finger. He hoped - it was his only hope now - that the pain of cancer, the pain of dying , would drive out the pains of love. It did not seem likely."
Resilience
"What does the novel do? It tells beautiful, shapely lies which enclose hard, exact truths."
Philosophy
"May you be ordinary, as the poet once wished the new-born baby."
Life
"The better you know someone, the less well you often see them (and the less well they can therefore be transferred into fiction). They may be so close as to be out of focus, and there is no operating novelist to dispel the blur."
Perception
"Flaubert didn't just hate the railway as such; he hated the way it flattered people with the illusion of progress. What was the point of scientific advance without moral advance? The railway would merely permit more people to move about, meet and be stupid together."
Society
"Music - good music, great music - had a hard, irreducible purity to it. It might be bitter and despairing and pessimistic, but it could never be cynical. If music is tragic, those with asses' ears accuse it of being cynical. But when a composer is bitter, or in despair, or pessimistic, that still means he believes in something."
Music
"The best life for a writer is the life which helps him write the best books he can."
Success
"Women scheme when they are weak, they lie out of fear. Men scheme when they are strong, they lie out of arrogance."
Behavior
"Throw off your grief,' doubters imply, 'and we can all go back to pretending death doesn't exist, or at least is comfortably far away."
Life
"The dangerous charm of GPC was that everything in the world could be called up; if you didn't look out, a couple of sessions might turn you from a serious enquirer into a mere gape-mouthed browser."
Knowledge
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