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Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are. – Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

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‘Tis not always in a physician’s power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art. – Ovid

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It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body. – Marcel Proust

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Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. – Ambrose Redmoon

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Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man. – Victor Hugo

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