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Affliction comes to us all, not to make us sad, but sober; not to

Affliction comes to us all, not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but to make us wise; not to make us despondent, but by its darkness to refresh us as the night refreshes the day; not to impoverish, but to enrich us. – Henry Ward Beecher

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If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire—then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience. Life is inconvenient. Life is lumpy. Learn to separate the inconveniences from the real problems. You will live longer. – Sigmund Wollman, quoted by Robert Fulghum, Uh-Oh, 1991

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Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light. – Steven Kloves, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (movie)

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Adversity introduces a man to himself. – Author Unknown

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Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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When children are very young, you read them books that are positive to help them go to sleep. But there comes a moment when they begin to understand the difficulties of the world. They know there are problems and the books they read should reflect that, not gloss over them. – Michael Morpurgo

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Nothing is so soothing to our self esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us. – Van Wyck Brooks

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My first three years of high school, I wasnt that cool. – Jonathan Bennett

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With a fourth generation of nuclear power, you can have a technology that will burn more than 99 percent of the energy in the fuel. It would mean that you dont need to mine uranium for the next thousand years. – James Hansen

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