Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within … — Khalil Gibran

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Khalil GibranPoet · 1883 – 1931

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There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect. — George Bernard Shaw
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. — William Shakespeare
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work. — Khalil Gibran
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