“Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever has to be learned must be learned the hard way.”
Source: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from The Teachings of Don Juan (Chapter 4)
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Kim Stanley Robinson book The Years of Rice and Salt
Book 2: "The Haj in the Heart", Ch. 5
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“Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate.”
Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism
Source: The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin
George Long (1800–1879) English classical scholar
An Old Man's Thoughts on Many Things, Of Education I
“because I have learned the hard way how deadly these beauties can be.”
Suzanne Collins (1962) American television writer and novelist
“We are all one, and if we don’t know it we will learn it the hard way.”
Bayard Rustin (1912–1987) American civil rights activist and gay rights activist
Source: Rustin at a gay rights rally shortly before his death, quoted in "Bayard Rustin: Struggling for civil and human rights for all people" https://www.afsc.org/story/bayard-rustin by Walter Naegle
