“Stand up to an obstacle. Just stand up to it, that's all, and don't give way under it, and it will finally break. You will break it. Something has to break, and it won't be you, it will be the obstacle.”
Source: The Power of Positive Thinking
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“Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.”
Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet
As quoted in Bartlett's Book of Love Quotations (1994) <!-- cited either to "Comment" or as a comment, this may have been attributed to Frost at least as early as 1962-->
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Context: The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended — and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.
