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“The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.”

Tom Bodett

"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward."

Vernon Law

“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.”

Pablo Picasso

"Reality is the name we give to our disappointments."

Mason Cooley

“Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.”

Joseph Addison

"Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come."

Theodor Adorno

“You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.”

Jonathan Carroll

“Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun.”

I'm sorry, I couldn't find out who has said this but I just like this one a lot - living can be expensive (and hard) in many ways but there is a positive thing to it and that is that you are living

“A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.”

C.S. Lewis

A lunatic might not be able to put out the sun for other people by writing "darkness" on the wall of his cell, but it might work for himself ...

“It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself”
Graham Greene