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“The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.”
~Confucius

“We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, ''Blessed are they that mourn.''”
~C.S. Lewis

“He who suffers much will know much”
~Greek proverb

“Suffering is the true cement of love”
~Paul Sabatier

"There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy."
~Jean Anouilh

“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”
~Mother Teresa

“Love means exposing yourself to the pain of being hurt, deeply hurt by someone you trust.”

“There is one pain I often feel, which you will never know. It is caused by the absence of you.”

“Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, pain of love lasts a lifetime.”

“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.”
~Paulo Coelho

“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.”
~ Sophocles

“The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned.”
~William Somerset Maugham

“Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.”
~Fulton Oursler

“If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.”
~Mercedes Lackey

“Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.”
~Sydney Smith

“A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams”
~Proverb

“To regret something is to hang yourself with your own noose. Mental suicide.”

“My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence in the tortured soul”
~William Shakespeare

“Oh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love, Around me once again”
~Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.”
~Ovid

“Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.”
~Gabriel Garcia

“All good things must come to an end, but all bad things can continue forever.”

“It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.”
~Chuck Palahniuk

“Sad are only those who understand”
~Arab Proverb

Depression and anxiety are not a sign of weakness. It's is a sign that you have been trying to be strong for too long......