"Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor."

Carrel, Alexis on suffering
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"Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I shall return there. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away blessed be the name of the Lord."

Bible on suffering
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"It is good for me that I was afflicted that I may learn Thy statutes. [Psalms 119:71]"

Bible on suffering   

"Wisdom comes alone through suffering."

Aeschylus on suffering
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"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."

Gibran, Kahlil on suffering
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"Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind."

Aristotle on suffering
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"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love."

Irving, Washington on tears
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"We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have."

Koenig, Frederick on happiness
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"In a gentle way, you can shake the world."

Gandhi, Mahatma on service
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"We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over."

Boswell, James on friends and friendship
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"Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them."

Irving, Washington on adversity
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"Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]"

Bible on adversity   

"Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead."

Brown, Les on adversity
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"If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started."

Garvey, Marcus on confidence
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"It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself."

Ali, Muhammad on confidence
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"Listening is one of the deepest, most profound signs of loving -- listening to yourself and listening to others. Your heart goes out and wraps around them and God's spirit of loving embraces you both."

Roger, John on listening
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"An essential condition of listening to God is that the mind should not be distracted by thoughts of resentment, ill-temper, hatred or vengeance, all of which are comprised in the general term, the wrath of man."

Tasker, R. V. G. on devotions   

"The less you talk, the more you're listened to."

Buren, Abigail Van on listening
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"No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite."

Mandela, Nelson on hate
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"Only if we can restrain ourselves is good conversation possible. Good talk rises upon much discipline."

Erskine, John on listening
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"One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another is listen to each other's stories."

Falls, Rebecca on listening
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"Listen to life, and you will hear the voice of life crying, Be!"

Freeman, James Dillet on listening
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"A person hears only what they understand."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on listening
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"I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen."

Hemingway, Ernest on listening
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"The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on listening
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"Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak."

Epictetus on listening
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"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on hope
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"For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."

Bible on love
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"In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself."

Krishnamurti, Jiddu on self-improvement   

"What you become directly influences what you get."

Rohn, Jim on self-improvement
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"Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility."

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich on action
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"Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes."

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich on obedience
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"The joy of youth is to disobey; but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders."

Cocteau, Jean on obedience
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"A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol."

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich on god
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"The mark of solitude is silence, as speech is the mark of community. Silence and speech have the same inner correspondence and difference as do solitude and community. One does not exist without the other. Right speech comes out of silence, and right silence comes out of speech."

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich on solitude
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"No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!"

Reagan, Ronald on bureaucracy
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"It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own."

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich on strength
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"Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders."

Reagan, Ronald on unemployment
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"Wanting to work is so rare a merit that it should be encouraged."

Lincoln, Abraham on work
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"You must choose the thoughts and actions that will lead you on to success."

Allen, R. C. on responsibility