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“The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.”
― Pierre de Courbertin

“I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

“The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“The Uses Of Sorrow

(In my sleep I dreamed this poem)

Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of darkness.

It took me years to understand
that this, too, was a gift.”
― Mary Oliver, Thirst

“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“Do you fall in love often?"

Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with friends, with complete strangers, with nothing at all.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Gut Symmetries

“What a strange thing!
to be alive
beneath cherry blossoms.”
― Kobayashi Issa, Poems

“O snail
Climb Mount Fuji
But slowly, slowly!”
― Kobayashi Issa

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
― Rumi

“Intense love always leads to mourning.”
― Louise Gluck, The Triumph of Achilles

“The sound of the sea— just memory now.”
― Louise Glück, Averno

“There is no such thing as a hopeless situation. Every single circumstances of your life can change! ”
― Rhonda Byrne, The Secret

“Your power is in your thoughts, so stay awake. In other words, remember to remember.”
― Rhonda Byrne, The Secret

“You are the masterpiece
of your own life.
You are the Michelangelo
of your own life.
The David you are sculpturing
is you

(Dr. Joe Vitale)”
― Rhonda Byrne, The Secret

“Every thought of yours is a real thing – a force.”
― Rhonda Byrne, The Secret

“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

“Maturity is when you accept the fact that two contradictory ideas can exist together.”
― David Kessler, Visions, Trips, and Crowded Rooms: Who and What You See Before You Die

“There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.”
― Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, M.D.

“Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.”
― Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“The more you learn, the harder the lessons get.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss

“Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.”
― Saul Bellow, Herzog

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

“Art is to console those who are broken by life.”
― Vincent van Gogh

“The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, doth glance from heaven to Earth, from Earth to heaven; and as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown, the poet's pen turns them to shape, and gives to airy nothing a local habitation and a name; such tricks hath strong imagination.”
― William Shakespeare

“All events are blessings given to us to learn from.”
― Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

“Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.”
― Rainer Marie Rilke