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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities. – Sophocles

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Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course. – William Shakespeare

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Don’t let a bad day make you feel like you have a bad life. – Author Unknown

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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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In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it. – Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest. – Paul Cezanne

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An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning. – Thomas a Kempis

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