What does not kill you…

Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.

Henry Rollins

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Courage

Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

William Tecumseh Sherman

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Don’t pray for an easy life

No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.

Seneca

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How to look on the inside

If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

Joanne K. Rownling (Sirius Black, Harry Potter)

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Go into the arts.

Go into the arts. I’m not kidding.

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake.

Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem.

Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward.

You will have created something.

Kurt Vonnegut

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The joy of creating things

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Enjoy the ride

Life is not as serious as the mind makes it out to be.

Eckhart Tolle

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Pushed in a corner

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

Henry Kissinger

It is true, necessity is the mother of invention. Sometimes you just need a clear head and having no alternatives does wonders for that.

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Being kind

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Mark Twain

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Choices and sleep!

Every morning you have to choices: Continue to sleep with your dreams. Or wake up and chase them.

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