We enjoy warmth because we have been cold. We appreciate light because we have been in darkness. By the same token, we can experience joy because we have known sadness.

—David Weatherford

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Love that will not betray you, dismay or enslave you – it will set you free

—Mumford and Sons, Sigh No More

Everyone says that love hurts, but that’s not true. Loneliness hurts. Rejection hurts. Losing someone hurts. Everyone confuses these with love, but really love is the one thing in this world that covers up all the pain and makes us feel wonderful again.

—Unknown

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Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather.

—Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

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I’ve found that the saddest people are also the funniest, and only those who understand complexity can communicate simplicity.

—Unknown

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“Butterflies can’t see their wings. They can’t see how beautiful they are, but everyone else can. People are like that.”

She believed a great happiness awaited her somewhere, and for this reason she remained calm as the days flew by.

—Sunflower, by Gyula Krúdy

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