All sorrow has its root in man's inability to sit quiet in a room by himself.

Blaise Pascal

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Don't hope that events will turn out the way you want, welcome events in whichever way they happen: this is the path to peace.

Learning is not compulsory... Neither is survival.

W. Edwards Deming

Without suffering and doubts, the mind will come to rest on cliches and stay there, until the spirit dies as well.

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