“What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.”
Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
Source: Meditations
“One can bear anything. The pain we cannot bear will kill us outright.”
— Janet Fitch, book White Oleander
Source: White Oleander
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