Without suffering, you cannot grow. Without suffering, you cannot get the peace and joy you deserve.
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
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“All of creation suffers, young ones. Only in accepting our own mortality can we make a difference. Only in bearing the burden of our failures can we find the strength to go on. Only in detachment from glory, or honour, or jealousy... from life itself can we hope to spare others from grief. We are Doom Eagles. And we are dead already. --
Librarian Secundus Thryn of the Doom Eagles”
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Librarian Secundus Thryn of the Doom Eagles”
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“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
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