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Anybody who plays sports and says they've never choked is lying to you.

In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.

When an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

By becoming more unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.

Every time you meet a situation, though you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the torture of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.

Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affection or grief has humanized the soul.

If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally, we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested, and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the river of greatness is always the stream of adversity.

Joy runs to meet him drawing near.

Much unhappiness results from our inability to remember the nice things that happen to us.

Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet?m I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.