To live in happiness, you must know some unhappiness in life.

Even when one has been wounded by it, Harry? asked the duchess after a pause. Especially when one has been wounded by it, answered Lord Henry.

Alanis Morissette: "You live, you learn. You love, you learn. You cry, you learn. You lose, you learn." I think there's something pretty comforting in knowing that even the biggest mistakes I'm inevitably going to make will turn me into who I'll be at thirty.

Life in general can carry on within limits even though some of its specific needs are not adequately met. A plant or animal without the appropriate food, light, or space may lead a weakened and deformed existence, but one that is still a life. Human life is not what it could be, though it is still here, still going on. But the question is, what is human life being cut off from to leave it in such a sad and depleted condition?

May our adversities make us strong. May our victories make us wise. May our actions make us proud.

I am a man who has hoped, in time, that his life, when poured out at the end, would say, "Good-good-good-good-good!" like a gallon jug of the prime local spirit. I am a man of losses, regrets, and griefs. I am an old man full of love. I am a man of faith.

odor in his clothes and beard and flesh too which I believed was the smell of powder and glory, the elected victorious but know better now: know now to have been only the will to endure, a sardonic and even humorous declining of self-delusion which is not even kin to that optimism which believes that that which is about to happen to us can

Annoying mishaps always seem to cluster around times of spiritual fruitfulness. That's not exactly coincidence.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necesary to a worthwhile achievement".

True education is gained through the discipline of life. There

Khi m?i th? d??ng nh? ??u ch?ng l?i b?n, hãy nh? r?ng máy bay c?t cánh ng??c gió, không ph?i theo chi?u gió.

Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.