Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

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"A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them."

- Victor Hugo

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"Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise."

- Victor Hugo

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"What is love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul."

- Victor Hugo

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"Intoxications of life's morning! Enchanted years! The wing of a dragonfly trembles! Oh, reader, whoever you may be, do you have such memories?"

- Victor Hugo

Nature

"Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots."

- Victor Hugo

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"The youth of this generation have a greater capacity for obedience than any previous generation."

- Elder David A. Bednar

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"He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior."

- Confucius

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"The pain you feel today will show itself as strength tomorrow."

- Tunde Oyeneyin

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"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."

- Mahatma Gandhi

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"Strength is the product of struggle, you must do what others don’t to achieve what others won’t."

- Henry Rollins

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