Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
Helen Keller Treasury of Women's Quotations
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Happiness and misery depend not on how high up or low down you are--they depend not upond these, but on the direction in which you are tending.
Samuel Butler The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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The miserable have no other medicine
But only hope.
William Shakespeare (Measure for Measure) Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
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Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.
Samuel Johnson The Book of Positive Quotations
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Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there is never any recourse to the mention of it.
Samuel Johnson The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
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It is by studying little things that we attain the great knowledge of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
Samuel Johnson The Book of Positive Quotations
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...the only true wisdom "lives far from mankind, out in the great loneliness, and can be reached only through suffering. Privation and suffering alone open the mind to all that is hidden to others."
Igjuarjuk, paraphrased by Joseph Campbell and quoted by Bill Moyers in the introduction. The Power of Myth
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There is surely a future hope for you, ``and your hope will not be cut off.
Proverbs 23:18 Holy Bible
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