“There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.
But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.”
― The Fifth Mountain: From the Bestselling Author of The Alchemist
But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.”
― The Fifth Mountain: From the Bestselling Author of The Alchemist
“Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.”
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.”
― Of the Standard of Taste and Other Essays
― Of the Standard of Taste and Other Essays
“Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
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