The world breaks everyone or nearly everyone, of their childish illusions, assumptions and wishes, often painfully and afterwards due to the personal growth in practical experience, insight and the resulting wisdom many are strong at the broken places just like mended broken bones often are, and some people even have the great insight to be grateful for the purifying fire.

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Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.

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The illusion of companionship sits waiting in the television set. We keep our televisions on more than we watch them - an average of more than seven hours a day. For background. For company.

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I admit it: I am louder than the average human being and have no fear of speaking my mind. These traits don't come from the color of my skin but from an unwavering belief in my own intelligence.

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Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. ― George Bernard Shaw

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Strong reasons make strong actions.

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There is no need to fear the strong. All one needs is to know the method of overcoming them. There is a special jujitsu for every strong man.

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Children are happy because they don’t have a file in their minds called ‘All the things that could go wrong.' — Marianne Williamson

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Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength. -Saint Francis de Sales

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The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.

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