If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency. ― bell hooks

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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. -Khalil Gibran

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Strength is a capacity for endurance. One of the dividends of suffering is the universal discovery the we posses a strength within us we never knew we had. Navigating through a difficult episode not only shows us that inner strength is there but convinces us it will always be there to serve us in the future. Overcoming gives us an assurance of personal confidence and value that far exceeds what we thought we possessed before our struggles began. — Dennis Wholey

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Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional. ― Desmond Tutu

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For some, life may be a playground to undermine the brainwaves of others or simply a vainglorious game with an armory of theatrics, illustrating only bleak self-deception, haughty narcissism and dim deficiency in empathy. ("Another empty room") ― Erik Pevernagie

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.

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My biggest fault is that the faults I was born with grow bigger each year. ― Haruki Murakami

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When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.

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If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC ― kurt vonnegut

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War had bled color from everything, leaving nothing but a storm of gray. ― Ruta Sepetys

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