“She imagined accepting it all. The way she accepted nature. The way she accepted a glacier or a puffin or the breach of a whale. Midnight Library
Difficulties strengthen the mind as labor does the body. Seneca's Morals
...undefiled by pleasures, invulnerable to any pain, untouched by arrogance, unaffected by meanness, an athlete in the greatest of all contests—the struggle not to be overwhelmed by anything that happens. Book III
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. The Picture of Dorian Gray
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