“We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.”
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My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.