Poetess99's favorites, chosen by checkmate

  1. Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
        Jacob A. Riis   Best?
  2. Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  3. The word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
        Carl Jung   Best?
  4. Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.
        Martha Beck   Best?
  5. No flower of art ever fully blossomed save it was nourished by tears of agony.
        Isadora Duncan   Best?
  6. The more you suffer, the more you show you really care.
        The Offspring   Best?

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