I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.

Hermann Hesse
I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy...
I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy...
I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy...
I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy...
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To quote one of the most famous lines from Tolstoy’s novel Anna Karenina, “Sanctity is not a cloak which hides our defects, but our virtues.” When we make mistakes, we suffer, but the great thing about life is that we have a chance to learn from those mistakes and to grow as a consequence of them.

Source: Peter Camenzind

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