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There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.

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Phyllis Bottome
Age: 81 †
Born: 1882
Born: May 31
Died: 1963
Died: August 22
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Phyllis Forbes Dennis
Ways
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Change
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Meetings
Difficulty
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Difficulties
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Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.
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That a Jew is despised or persecuted is bad for him, of course-but far worse for the Christian who does it-for although persecuted he can remain a good Jew-whereas no Christian who persecutes can possibly remain-if he ever was one-a good Christian.
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A blossom must break the sheath it has been sheltered by.
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... a woman who has been a nun is never anything else.
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Things that happen, however painful they are at the time, do not matter very much for long. Only how we behave to them matters.
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A man whose every exertion is bent upon showing up the flaws in his wife's character must be at least partially responsible for some of them.
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A desire that has never been fulfilled is considerably less acute than one that has been fulfilled and then checked at the source.
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artists are exposed to great temptations: their eyes see paradise before their souls have reached it, and that is a great danger.
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People who talk of new lives believe there will be no new troubles.
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Love comes into your being like a tidal wave ... sometimes it withdraws like a wave, till there isn't such a thing as a pool left, and every bit of your heart is as dry as seaweed beyond the wave's reach.
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Human beings don't show, any more than cities at dusk, their real necessities! And yet if you looked -- past the circle of outside lights, through the street walls still standing -- into the want and emptiness within!
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it must depend as much upon the patient's willingness to be cured, as upon the physician's skill in curing. There is neither force not magic in psychiatry.
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... one pets what one degrades and one has to support what one has enfeebled
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Nobody can afford to appear more pleasant than they really are!
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