Talent is nothing without persistence. — Dean Crawford

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You do not suffer because things are impermanent. You suffer because things are impermanent and you think they are permanent.

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If we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom.

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I never dreamt of success. I worked for it. —Estée Lauder

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No writer in our time has been more isolated than Kafka, and yet few have achieved communication as well as he did.

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The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don't wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy. ― Thich Nhat Hanh

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.

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Suffering brings experience. ― Aeschylus

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The only thing standing between you and outrageous success is continuous progress. — Dan Waldschmidt

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The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering. ― Ben Okri

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