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Hard times' is a phrase the English love to use, when speaking of Africa. And it is easy to forget t...

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If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity...

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If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity...

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I didn't care if he was a genius or a fucking idiot, he was rotting away, and it wasn't fun to watch...

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If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first."This is another way of saying that if you h...

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Brian TracyEat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

One never meets just Cancer, or War, or Unhappiness (or Happiness). One only meets each hour or mome...

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What a weary time those years were -- to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.

Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of you...

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Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of you...

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Pain can be endured and defeated only if it is embraced. Denied or feared, it grows in perception if...

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He were found drowned. He were coming home very hopeless o' aught on earth. He thought God could na ...

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Illness especially, may be a blessed forerunner of the individual’s conversion. Not only does it pre...

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Fulton J. SheenPeace of Soul: Timeless Wisdom on Finding Serenity and Joy by the Century's Most Acclaimed Catholic Bishop

Conversion can also occur among those who already have the faith. Christians will become real Christ...

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Fulton J. SheenPeace of Soul: Timeless Wisdom on Finding Serenity and Joy by the Century's Most Acclaimed Catholic Bishop

A great battle is a terrible thing," the old knight said, "but in the midst of blood and carnage, th...

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We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running...

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To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship.

Bilbo was sadly reflecting that adventures are not all pony-rides in May-sunshine...

It is the lumps and trialsThat tell us whether we shall be knownAnd whether our fate can be exemplar...

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John AshberySelf-Portrait in a Convex Mirror

That's the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.

But William Stoner knew of the world in a way that few of his younger colleagues could understand. D...

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Though you may hear me holler,And you may see me cry--I'll be dogged, sweet baby,If you gonna see me...

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...the more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things ...

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He was handsome and strong, but somehow that wasn't enough for him. He also felt the need to be toug...

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Even cowards can endure hardship only the brave can endure suspense.

Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen. Otherwise it ...

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Rainer Maria RilkeLetters to a Young Poet

Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any misery, any depression, since after all...

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it is clear that we must trust what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it, everything in Natur...

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There is no success without hardship.

Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? Proving nature's laws wrong, it ...

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Tupac ShakurThe Rose That Grew from Concrete

Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic tha...

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