“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body

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Seneca”

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

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Oscar Wilde”

“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

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Howard Thurman”

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honourable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson”

The best way out is always through.

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Robert Frost

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls, the most massive characters are seared with scars.

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Khalil Gibran

Nothing can dim the light that shines from within.

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Maya Angelou

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves

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Henry David Thoreau

No need to hurry, no need to sparkle, no need to be anybody but oneself.

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Virginia Woolf

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

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Robert Louis Stevenson

Be patient and tough; some day this pain will be useful to you.

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Ovid

Treat yourself as you are, and you will remain as you are. Treat yourself as you could be, and you will become what you should be.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.

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Rumi

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the end, we only regret the chances we didn't take.

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Lewis Carroll