The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.

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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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The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can't be found.

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Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.

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Life breaks all of us but some of us get stronger in the broken places.

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Remember everything is right until it's wrong. You'll know when it's wrong.

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I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

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I'm with you. No matter what else you have in your head I'm with you and I love you.

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Live it up so you can write it down.

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Never mistake motion for action.

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