“You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.”

— Stewart O'Nan

Source: The Odds: A Love Story

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“Rosa Parks showed us all that one little person can make a whole bunch of noise without so much as a whisper. She showed the world that the color of your skin shouldn't determine what part of the bus you sit in… as you ride through life.”

Richard Pryor (1940–2005) American stand-up comedian, actor, social critic, writer, and MC

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“Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.”

Dinah Shore (1916–1994) American singer and actress

Quoted in Sy Safransky: Sunbeams: a book of quotations, (1990), Page 124 http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=A5NiEt9h2AIC&pg=PA124&dq=%22Trouble+is+a+part+of+your+life,+and+if+you+don%27t+share+it,%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=4IUxT6rKFMzfsgbC6tyVBA&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22Trouble%20is%20a%20part%20of%20your%20life%2C%20and%20if%20you%20don%27t%20share%20it%2C%22&f=false