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"We have no right to ask when sorrow comes, "Why did this happen to me?" unless we ask the same question for every moment of happiness that comes our way."	Author Unknown
"A bend in the road is not the end of the road... unless you fail to make the turn."	Author Unknown
"Sometimes the littlest things in life are the hardest to take. You can sit on a mountain more comfortably than on a tack."	Author Unknown
"It just wouldn't be a picnic without the ants."	Author Unknown
"The problem with troubleshooting is that trouble shoots back."	Author Unknown
"Adversity introduces a man to himself."	Author Unknown
"The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter."	Author Unknown
"Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience."	Author Unknown
"There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it."	Author Unknown
"You never know what you've got until it's gone."	Author Unknown
"Much of your pain is self-chosen."	Kahlil Gibran
"Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.... [A]ccept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields...."	Kahlil Gibran
"Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight."	Josh Billings
"You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave."	Henry Ward Beecher
"God uses suffering as a whetstone, to make men sharp with."	Henry Ward Beecher
"We acquire the strength we have overcome."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I had a lover's quarrel with the world."	Robert Frost
"Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery."	Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Anne Dudley Bradstreet	Antoine Laurent Lavoisier	Arthur Koestler
Author Unknown	Baltasar Gracian	Benjamin Franklin
Buddha	B. J. Gupta	Carl Gustav Jung
Charles Caleb Colton	Charlotte Bronte	Chilo
Churton Collins	Confucius	Daisaku Ikeda
Dr. Joyce	Dr. Samuel Johnson	Dr. Thomas Fuller
Dwight David Eisenhower	Edmund Burke	Edward C. Banfield
Edward R(oscoe) Murrow	Eli Khamarov	Emmet Fox
Epictetus	Epicurus	E. R. Bulwer-Lytton
Frederick Douglass	General Charles De Gaulle	George Eliot
George Moore	George Stanley McGovern	Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Helen Adams Keller	Henri-Frédéric Amiel	Henry Ward Beecher
Henry Peter Brougham	Homer	Honoré de Balzac
Horace	Horace Mann	Isak Dinesen
Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]	James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.	Jeff Greenfield
Jim	Joe Moore	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
John Fitzgerald Kennedy	John Maynard Keynes	John Norley
John Quincy Adams	John W(illiam) Gardner	Joseph Heller
Jose Ortega y Gasset	Josh Billings	Kahlil Gibran
Laertius Diogenes	Lee C. Bollinger	Louis
Lyndon Baines Johnson	Mario M(atthew) Cuomo	Marquise du Deffand
Matthew Arnold	Michael Leuning	Miguel de Cervantes
Nadia Boulanger	Napolean Hill	Niccolo Machiavelli
Nikos Kazantzakis	Og Mandino	Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oscar Wilde	Phyllis Bottome	Phyllis McGinley
Proverbs 17:17 Bible	Ralph Waldo Emerson	Rene Descartes
Richard Milhouse Nixon	Robert Frost	Robert Fulghum
Robyn Davidson	Roger Bannister	Roger John
Ryszard Kapuscinski	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
Sophia Loren	Stephen William Hawking	Søren Aaby Kierkegaard
Thomas Carlyle	Thomas Jefferson	Thomas Alva Edison
Walter Anderson	Walt(er) Elias Disney	Warren G. Bennis
William Hazlitt	William Shakespeare	William Cullen Bryant
William Ellery Channing	Wystan Hugh Auden	(Arthur) Clive