Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

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"You can always tell a real friend: When you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job."

- Laurence J. Peter

Relationships

"You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job."

- Laurence J. Peter

Forgiveness

"The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep."

- Laurence J. Peter

Reflection

"Speak when you are angry, and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret."

- Laurence J. Peter

Wisdom

"Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away."

- Laurence J. Peter

Self-care

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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

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