“A man's life would be intolerable if he knew what is to befall him.”

― Anatole France, The Gods Are Athirst

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“Shall we always study to obtain more of these things, and not sometimes to be content with less?”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn’t need a word for that anymore than for...”

― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

“PATIENCE, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

“In the fairy tale an incomprehensible happiness rests upon an incomprehensible condition. A box is opened, and all evils fly out. A word is forgotten, and cities perish. A lamp is lit, and love flies away. A flower is plucked, and human lives are...”

― G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“OPTIMISM, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

“Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry VI

“You face the biggest challenge of all: to have the courage to seek your dream regardless of what anyone else says or thinks. You are the only person alive who can see your big picture—and even you can’t see it all.”

― Oprah Winfrey, What I Know For Sure

“Rather do I fear to lose truth by this pretension to possess it already wholly.”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

“Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain, shared with no one.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Make me into anything, but just love me.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

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