„Each time I spoke, I gained a little courage. It took a long while—but today I have more happiness than I ever dreamed possible. In rearing my own children, I have always taught them the lesson I had to learn from such bitter experience: No matter what happens, always be yourself!“

— Dale Carnegie

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„And what is happy? It is a going always on. There is something better to be done than I have done, and spurred by the fair delusion of progress, I will seek to progress, to whip myself on, to more and more- to learning. Always.“
— Sylvia Plath
„It is my wish that you may have at better and freer life than I have had. Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience; this was what upheld me in time of misery.“
— Ludwig Van Beethoven
„I learned long ago that in order to heal my wounds, I must have the courage to face up with them.“
— Paulo Coelho
„What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.“
— Henry Miller
„I learned more in the six or seven hours of this experience than I had learned in all my years as a psychologist.“
— Ram Dass
„It's overwhelming. I feel as if I am living in an illusion a dream where all things are possible. Amazing things do happen I know but always to someone else always in some far off place and time.“
— Christopher Paolini
„… the second time I ever saw you I learned what I had read in books but I had never actually believed: that love and suffering are the same thing and that the sum of love is what you have to pay for it and any time you get it cheap you have cheated yourself.“
— William Faulkner