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

Gibran, Kahlil on suffering
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"Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights."

Gibran, Kahlil on silence
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"For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And what is it to cease breathing but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?"

Gibran, Kahlil on potential
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"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding."

Gibran, Kahlil on pain
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"Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come."

Hugo, Victor on ideas
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"Words are alive; cut them and they bleed."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on words
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"Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in despair."

Livingstone, David on dedication   

"The condition of an enlightened mind is a surrendered heart."

Redpath, Alan on dedication
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"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear."

Lewis, C. S. on grief
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"Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief."

Lewis, C. S. on misers and misery
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"The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm."

Colton, Charles Caleb on extremes and extremists   

"Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another."

Niebuhr, Reinhold on extremes and extremists   

"It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast."

Burchill, Julie on faces   

"The eyes those silent tongues of love."

Cervantes, Miguel De on faces
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"The serial number of a human specimen is the face, that accidental and unrepeatable combination of features. It reflects neither character nor soul, nor what we call the self. The face is only the serial number of a specimen."

Kundera, Milan on faces   

"We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and in others."

Camus, Albert on fallibility
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"It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one."

Jerome, Jerome K. on fallibility   

"The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on eyes
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"Her eyes are homes of silent prayers."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on eyes
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"The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing."

Syrus, Publilius on eyes
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"Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile."

Burchill, Julie on bereavement
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"Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death."

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth on bereavement
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"If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for both lovers, and for all pairs of lovers without exception, bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love."

Lewis, C. S. on bereavement
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"Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved."

Murdoch, Iris on bereavement
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"It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter."

Lewis, C. S. on death
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"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."

Lewis, C. S. on desires
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"We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started... and know the place for the first time."

Eliot, T. S. on exploration
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"The eyes see only what the mind is prepared to comprehend."

Davies, Robertson on eyes
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"He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others."

Ingersoll, Robert Green on aid and assistance   

"Whoever is in the distress can call me. I will come running wherever they are."

Diana, Princess of Wales on aid and assistance
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"We all need each other."

Buscaglia, Leo on aid and assistance
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"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other."

Everett, Douglas on ability
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"Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it."

Daniels, Josephus on defeat
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"Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such."

Miller, Henry on acceptance
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"Ah, when to the heart of man was it ever less than a treason to go with the drift of things to yield with a grace to reason and bow and accept at the end of a love or a season."

Frost, Robert on acceptance
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"Even if it's a lie, even if it's a dream, please turn to me."

Takami, Koushun on support   

"Things are beautiful if you love them."

Anouilh, Jean on beauty
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"Beauty is in the heart of the beholder."

Bernstein, Al on beauty
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"I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve can move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this may sound, it is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret."

Robbins, Anthony on commitment
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"There's always a way -- if you're committed."

Robbins, Anthony on commitment