The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance to it.


Jean Nicholas Grou

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She wanted something else, something different, something more. Passion and romance, perhaps, or may...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
If you're a bird... I'm a bird...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
She was my dream. She made me who I am, and holding her in my arms was more natural to me than my ow...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
In times of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you and take your grief and make it my own. Wh...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
In time, the hurt began to fade and it was easier to just let it go. At least I thought it was. But ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
You are the answer to every prayer I've offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don't kno...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
My daddy said, that the first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard y...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created....
NICHOLAS SPARKS
I love you. I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I've eve...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
You are, and always have been, my dream.
NICHOLAS SPARKS
It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things.
NICHOLAS SPARKS
It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you rea...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter an...
NICHOLAS HILLIARD
Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.
NICHOLAS LING
Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.
NICHOLAS BRETON
No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.
NICHOLAS BOILEAU
He who cannot limit himself will never know how to write.
NICHOLAS BOILEAU
What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you hav...
NICHOLAS DEWOLF
Guilt is the source of sorrow, 'tis the fiend,
Th' avenging fiend, that follows us behind,
Wit...
NICHOLAS ROWE
Steps are what you take when you think you have forever.
NICHOLAS LORE
The ability to feel fear and keep moving forward distinguishes the living from the merely breathing.
NICHOLAS LORE
Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.
NICHOLAS BOILEAU
Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.
NICHOLAS BOILEAU
Sometimes what seems like surrender isn't surrender at all. It's about what's going on in our hearts...
NICHOLAS EVANS
However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.
NICHOLAS BOILEAU
Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.
NICHOLAS BOILEAU
A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
NICHOLAS BOILEAU
Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return.
NICHOLAS BOILEAU
If I be the first of us to die,
Let grief not blacken long your sky.
Be bold yet modest in you...
NICHOLAS EVANS
The inventor of the Xerox machine will, I am sure, find a special place reserved for him on one of t...
NICHOLAS GOODISON
For a long time then, I reflected on this confusion in the astronomical traditions concerning the de...
NICHOLAS COPERNICUS
If your descent is from heroic sires, show in your life a remnant of their fires.
NICHOLAS BOILEAU
From every blush that kindles in thy cheeks, Ten thousand little loves and graces spring To re...
NICHOLAS ROWE
To rise with the lark, and go to bed with the lamb.
NICHOLAS BRETON
Guilt is the source of sorrows, the avenging fiend that follows us behind with whips and stings.
NICHOLAS ROWE
Thou hast prevariated with thy friend, By underhand contrivances undone me: And while my open ...
NICHOLAS ROWE
It's the first line in your book. I always thought there was a lot of truth in that. Or maybe that's...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
Wait. Let me guess. You’re giving me the cold shoulder, right?”
With that, she sighed. “S...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
At times, he even admitted that he'd been more an observer of the world than a participant in it...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
Change not only was inevitable, but usually brought its own rewards.
NICHOLAS SPARKS
When I was seventeen, I don't think I even knew what love was. But when it's right, it's right, and ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
There are guys who grow up thinking they'll settle down some distant time in the future, and there a...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
God, he suddenly understood, was love in its purest form, and in these last months with his children...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
People didn't change. they liked what they liked even if they didn't understand why.
NICHOLAS SPARKS
As far as I can tell, dumping soda on people is the equivalent of ‘Hi, it’s nice to meet you’ ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
Love is fragile. And we're not always its best caretakers. We just muddle through and do the best we...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
A story about family, first loves, second chances, and the moments in life that leads you back home
NICHOLAS SPARKS
I call it God Light, because it reminds me of heaven. Every time the light shines through the window...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
Never forget that God is your friend. And like all friends, He longs to hear what's been happening i...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
I’m stuck babysitting turtle eggs while a volleyball player slash grease monkey slash aquarium vol...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
In a lifetime of mistakes, you two are the greatest things that have ever happened to me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS
She was a stranger now, but she'd been a friend once, and that was enough for him.
NICHOLAS SPARKS
The pieces all fit together. Yet everything was falling apart.
NICHOLAS SPARKS
Emotions come and go and can't be controlled so there's no reason to worry about them. That in the e...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
He liked her; it was as simple as that.
NICHOLAS SPARKS
He was ordinary in a world that loved the extraordinary.
NICHOLAS SPARKS
He stared at her, knowing with certainty that he was falling in love. He pulled her close and kissed...
NICHOLAS SPARKS