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"Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy."

Saadi

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“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.”
Stendhal

I do wonder how one can acquire friends in solitude :doubt: ...

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"Character develops itself in the stream of life".
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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"The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become."

Jim Rohn

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“Never let a problem to be solved become more important than the person to be loved.”

Barbara Johnson

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"A woman who is loved always has success."

Vicki Baum

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"Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable."
Fran Lebowitz

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"What makes vanity so insufferable to us, is that it hurts our own."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.”

Thomas Merton