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The Maidens
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My argument with so much of psychoanalysis is the preconception that suffering is a mistake, or a sign of weakness, or a sign even of illness. When in fact, possibly the greatest truths we know have come out of people’s suffering.
“Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“Making money isn’t hard in itself,’ he complained. ‘What’s hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting your life to.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
“All humans make mistakes. What determines a person's character aren't the mistakes we make. It's how we take those mistakes and turn them into lessons rather than excuses.”
― It Ends with Us
― It Ends with Us
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