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The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers most.
- Thomas Merton
The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one's heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one's heart to stone.
- Oscar Wilde
When the fierce, burning winds blow over our lives-and we cannot prevent them-let us, too, accept the inevitable. And then get busy and pick up the pieces.
- Dale Carnegie
Numerous studies have shown that your health risk is higher following a loss.
- H. Norman Wright
God does not send the problem, the illness, the accident, the hurricane, and God does not take them away when we find the right words and rituals with which to beseech Him. Rather, God sends us strength and determination of which we did not believe ourselves capable, so that we can deal with, or live with, problems that no one can make go away.
- Harold S. Kushner
not take them away when we find the right words and rituals with which to beseech Him. Rather, God sends us strength and determination of which we did not believe ourselves capable, so that we can deal with, or live with, problems that no one can make go away.
- Harold S. Kushner
Sometimes, if we can't find another person to dump our anger on, we turn it on ourselves. The textbook definition of depression is anger turned inward instead of being discharged outward.
- Harold S. Kushner
I know that this is a painful time for you. But I know that you will get through it all right, because God never sends us more of a burden than we can bear. God only let this happen to you because He knows that you are strong enough to handle it." Harriet Schiff remembers her reaction to those words: "If only I was a weaker person, Robbie would still be alive.
- Harold S. Kushner
A sense of humor is a requisite to surviving in our demanding world.
- Janette Oke
The Macedonians gave in the context of their lack of resources.
- Timothy Lane
if you are a chronic worrier, you may be stricken some day with one of the most excruciating pains ever endured by man: angina pectoris.
- Dale Carnegie
Yes, everyone faces challenges in their lives, and people commonly say it doesn't matter what the challenge is; what matters is how one responds to it.
- Dale Carnegie