The world breaks everyone or nearly everyone, of their childish illusions, assumptions and wishes, often painfully and afterwards due to the personal growth in practical experience, insight and the resulting wisdom many are strong at the broken places just like mended broken bones often are, and some people even have the great insight to be grateful for the purifying fire.

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The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

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Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be

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The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can't be found.

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You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.

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Live it up so you can write it down.

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Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

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When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.

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