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The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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Epicures
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil.
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Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
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August Hare
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
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Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971)
Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.
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Alfred Sheinwold
There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.
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Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
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Dan Stanford
Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.
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Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)
Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864)
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