Topic
Struggle, challenges and difficulties
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You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible. |
– Deepak Chopra
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You are never stronger...than when you land on the other side of despair. |
– Zadie Smith
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There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair. |
– Evelyn Waugh
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Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all. |
– Evelyn Waugh
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of. |
– Michel de Montaigne
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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility. |
– Simone Weil
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In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish. |
– Simone Weil
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The darker the night, the brighter the stars,
The deeper the grief, the closer is God! |– Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love. |
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth. |
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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To go wrong in one's own way is better then to go right in someone else's. |
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The odds are irrelevant; if it’s possible and it matters, you take the shot and you never give up. |
– Regina Dugan
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Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn. |
– Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. |
– Anais Nin
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We face up to awful things because we can't go around them, or forget them. The sooner you say 'Yes, it happened, and there's nothing I can do about it,' the sooner you can get on with your own life. You've got children to bring up. So you've got to get over it. What we have to get over, somehow we do. Even the worst things. |
– Annie Proulx
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If you can't fix it, you have to stand it. |
– Annie Proulx
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Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness. |
– Italo Calvino
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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful. |
– Guy de Maupassant
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I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not. |
– Kurt D. Cobain
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Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. |
– Alal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
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The wound is the place where the Light enters you. |
– Alal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
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You can't get lost if you don't know where you are going. |
– Anonymous
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No rain. No rainbow. |
– Anonymous
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely. |
– Charles M. Schulz
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