Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

Mary Oliver

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The good life is not one immune to sadness but one in which suffering contributes to our development.

Alain de Botton

People cry, not because they're weak. It's because they've been strong for too long.

I miss you in waves and tonight I'm drowning.

There is so much pain in the world, and most of these people keep theirs secret, rolling through agonizing lives in invisible wheelchairs, dressed in invisible bodycasts.

Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

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