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“Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow.”

Source: The courage to be happy

“If you're going thru hell, keep going.”

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Author:Rob Estes

“The old happiness is unreturning. Boy's griefs are not so grievous as youth's yearning. Boys have no sadness sadder than our hope.”

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Book:The Collected poems of Wilfred Owen

Source: The Collected poems of Wilfred Owen

“Sometimes, we don't get what we want. . . But this is a benevolent universe. And once in a while, we do.”

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Author:Melody Beattie

“All of us have been dying, hour by hour, since the moment we were born. Realizing this, let all things be placed in their proper perspective. . . . Remember, it is always later than you think.”

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Author:Og Mandino

“There is a special sadness in achievement, in the knowledge that a long-desired goal has been attained at last, and that life must now be shaped toward new ends.”

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Author:Arthur C. Clarke

“My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.”

“There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.”

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Book:George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss

Source: George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss

“Don’t underestimate your tears. They have the power to strengthen your commitment to your life’s purpose and to direct you towards your goal. So, when you cry because of the people who mock or taunt you, be positive and make promises with yourself that you will prove them wrong.”

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Author:Saad Salman

“At times you’ve no one around to be blamed for all the shit you have to go through in life. It’s not always the mistake of the people of the world that you were not granted something you wished so bad to have. It’s just not written for you. It’s not as easy to feel as it sounds to hear this fact from your loved ones who’re trying to console you or read anywhere on a paper, unless and until you’re in those circumstances experiencing the thing you loved the most taken away from your hands. Every second feels like torture that you’ve never heard, never encountered, or experienced before.”

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Book:Breaking a Pledge

Source: Breaking a Pledge

“It's the cold and dead who don't suffer. The living are bound to suffer, for it's through the suffering that healing comes, it's through the suffering that character comes.”

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Book:Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race

Source: Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race

“the opening, the breaking, the falling apart is always so quick. the hurting, the healing, the putting back together is always too long.”

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Book:you are safe here.

Source: you are safe here.

“It's still ok to dream with a broken heart.”

“Sometimes I can feel ..the sigh of my soul...beneath the weight.. of the desires....still unmet...sometimes I can feel ...the tightness in my bones...at the thought ...of the lives I have not lived...”

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Author:Jayita Bhattacharjee