After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.

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"That old saying, how you always hurt the one you love, well, it works both ways."

- Chuck Palahniuk

Love

"You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it’s just teeth."

- Chuck Palahniuk

Awareness

"Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions."

- Chuck Palahniuk

Awareness

"Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves."

- Chuck Palahniuk

Transformation

"May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect."

- Chuck Palahniuk

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"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

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"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."

- Epicurus

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"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."

- Jesse Owens

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"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

- Frederick Douglass

Adversity