"Great character is forged through hardships."

-- Eiji Yoshikawa

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“The clever way death cuts us down, but makes it look like just a thinning-out. Generations never fall with one blow - that would be too sad and too obvious. Death prefers to do it piecemeal. The meadow is attacked from several sides at the same time. One of us goes one day; another some time afterwards; you have to stand back and look around you to take in what's missing, to grasp the vast slaughter of your generation...”

Source : "The art of suffering" by Julian Barnes, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2002.
“The payment for sins can be delayed. But they cant be avoided.”
“Focusing on others will give you more inï¬‚uence and power than focusing on yourself.”
“If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.”
“I believe that for peace a man may, even should, do everything in his power. Nothing in this world could rank higher than peace.”
“Happy the man to whom heaven has given a morsel of bread without laying him under the obligation of thanking any other for it than heaven itself.”
“What I need is to believe in myself againâ€” for my faith has been greatly undermined; it seems to me my role is over.”

Source : Letter to a nephew, February 9, 1893.
“The Lord is in the details of our lives.”

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