“Yet experience has taught me that fate is sometimes cruel and that even a boatload of hope is sometimes not enough.”
Source: The Longest Ride
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American writer and novelist 1965Related quotes

“Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.”
Variant: Time has taught me not to loose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either
Source: The Shadow of the Wind

As quoted in Forbes Magazine (3 December 2001)
Context: Without cancer, I never would have won a single Tour de France. Cancer taught me a plan for more purposeful living, and that in turn taught me how to train and to win more purposefully. It taught me that pain has a reason, and that sometimes the experience of losing things — whether health or a car or an old sense of self — has its own value in the scheme of life. Pain and loss are great enhancers.
Source: A Hunger Like No Other

On a panel with R. Scott Bakker in Semana Negra, Spain (2008)

Book I, Note I, p. 18
Les confidences (1849)

“Even strength has to bow down to wisdom sometimes.”
Variant: Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes.
Source: The Lightning Thief