

“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”
Crime and Punishment · 1866
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“On our earth we can only love with suffering and through suffering.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man · 1877
verified“It's life that matters, nothing but life — the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Idiot · 1868
verified“Nothing in the world is harder than speaking the truth and nothing easier than flattery.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment · 1866
verified“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on Earth.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment · 1866
verified“If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Insulted and the Injured · 1861
verified“Love a man even in his sin, for that is the semblance of Divine Love and is the highest love on earth.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Brothers Karamazov · 1879
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“A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.”
Helen Keller
The Simplest Way to be Happy · 1933
verified“No doubt the reason is that character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
Helen Keller
Helen Keller's Journal · 1938
verified“Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.”
Helen Keller
We Bereaved · 1929
verified“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
You Learn by Living · 1960
verified“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Harijan · 1947
verified“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”
Mahatma Gandhi
The Doctrine of the Sword, Young India · 1920
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