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“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“I didn’t plan on any of this. But here’s the thing, I don’t think any of that matters because some things – the things you don’t plan – end up changing your life in way you could never imagine. Some of them like falling off a quad and loosing your hearing are put in your path to teach you what strength and perseverance means to a man. Other things, things like finding the woman you’re going to spend your life with, they sneak up on you.”
― Bella Matthews, Sweet Oblivion

“Disappointments in love, even betrayals and losses, serve the soul at the very moment they seem in life to be tragedies. The soul is partly in time and partly in eternity. We might remember the part that resides in eternity when we feel despair over the part that is in life.”
― Thomas Moore, Care of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life