"Adversity is the touchstone of character: it is not in success but in misfortune that hidden powers bear fruit."

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Source : Ethel Alec-Tweedie, Mrs Alec-Tweedie (1904). “Sunny Sicily: Its Rustics and Its Ruins”

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“It seems whether we have a tendency towards being flexible or structured affects how we create, how we parent, how we work.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“Until you take charge of your own life, things don't happen.”

Source : Suzanne Braun Levine (2011). “The Woman's Guide to Second Adulthood: Inventing the Rest of Our Lives”, p.134, A&C Black
“Everyone has two choices. We're either full of love... or full of fear.”
“I just feel like this skin is mine. It's aging every day and the tattoos are aging with me. So, I'm going to be an old piece of paper one day with a lot of work on it.”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com
“If you don't have the capacity to change yourself and your own attitudes, then nothing around you can be changed.”
“Restless thoughts are a kind of mental 'static' which must be silenced if we are to hear the whispers of our inner self.”

Source : John Novak (1994). “How to Meditate: A Step-by-step Guide to the Art and Science of Meditation”, p.12, Crystal Clarity Publishers
“I can't get a relationship to last longer than it takes to make copies of their tapes.”
“Behind every good decathlete, there's a good doctor.”

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