"The good things that happen to us were meant to happen, and the bad things that happen are lessons meant to teach us to be better."

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Source : Adriana Trigiani (2003). “Lucia, Lucia: A Novel”, p.142, Random House

Adriana Trigiani

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“Most of the dogmatic religions have exhibited a perverse talent for taking the wrong side on the most important concepts in the material universe, from the structure of the solar system to the origin of man.”
“Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities.”
“I was always much impressed, in reading prison memoirs of revolutionists, such as Lenin and Trotsky ... by the amount of reading they did, the languages they studied, the range of their plans for a better social order. (Or rather, for a new social order.) In the Acts of the Apostles there are constant references to the Way and the New Man.”
“The father is the sun, the mother is the moon and the light they mutually shed on their kids makes them bright stars against a very dark night.”
“Eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions god's infinite love.”
“It wasnâ€™t that strangers couldnâ€™t hurt you. It was simply that the people you loved could do it so much better.”
“We gained a great deal of prestige, but not much money. We liked to work so much we couldn't hide it and the club owners paid us accordingly.”
“Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! It's not the fight that crowns us, but the end.”

Source : Robert Herrick (1852). “Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine”

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