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In
every adversity there lies
the seed of an equivalent advantage.
In every defeat is a lesson showing
you how to win the victory
next time.
Robert
Collier
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Those
who know no hardships will know no hardihood. Those who face no
calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the
characteristics in human nature
which we love best grow in a soil with
a strong mixture of troubles.
Harry
Emerson Fosdick
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We
do not know what we can bear until we are put to the
test. Many a
delicate mother, who thought that she could not survive the
death of her
children, has lived to bury her husband and the last one of
a large
family, and in addition to all this has seen her home and
last dollar swept
away; yet she has had the courage to bear it all and to go
on as before. When the need comes, there is a power deep within us that
answers the call.
Orison
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Whatever
evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves,
after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good.
So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root,
to raise perhaps many flowers.
Leigh Hunt
One of
the secrets of life is
to make stepping stones
out of stumbling blocks.
Jack
Penn
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To
accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of
education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun.
To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is
complete.
Epictetus |
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We
cannot be guilty of a greater act of uncharitableness,
than to interpret
the afflictions which befall our neighbors
as
punishments and judgments.
Joseph
Addison
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There is in
every person's heart a spark of heavenly fire
which
lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity,
but which
kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of
adversity.
Washington
Irving
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The
one law that does not change
is that everything changes, and the
hardship
I was bearing today was
only a breath away from the pleasures
I would have tomorrow, and those
pleasures would be all the richer
because of the memories of this
I was enduring.
Louis
L'Amour
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Certain circumstances
are so overwhelmingly difficult that the best
we can do to promote our eventual healing is simply to mark time,
stay alive,
and bear up under the worst of our suffering.
Ann
Kaiser Stearns
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If
you reflect on your life, you may recall times when you
couldn't see
the value of some person and were tempted to brush him or
her off. It
takes hindsight to recognize that the very situation you may
have seen
as an irritating bother turned out to be a blessing in
disguise. Wouldn't
life be a much more enjoyable and meaningful experience if
we decided
to look at the difficult people and irritating situations as
blessings in
disguise? If we look deeply enough, we might see how
these experiences
as situations that motivate us to grow and change for the
better.
John
Marks Templeton
Worldwide Laws of Life |
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The
worst thing in your life may contain seeds of the best.
When you can see crisis as an opportunity,
your life becomes not easier, but more satisfying.
Joe
Kogel
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Trials,
temptations, disappointments--all these are helps instead of
hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the
fiber of
character but strengthen it. Every conquering of temptation represents
a new fund of moral energy. Every trial
endured and weathered in the
right spirit makes a soul nobler
and stronger than it was before.
James
Buckham |
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Without
adversity, without change,
life is boring.
The paradox of
comfort is that we stop trying.
John
Amatt
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Expect trouble as an
inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself
the most comforting words of all: This, too, shall pass.
Ann Landers
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Adversity is another way
to measure the greatness of individuals.
I never had a crisis
that didn't make me stronger.
Lou
Holtz |
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There are not so many
lessons in glad times.
Adversity is by far the better
teacher.
Adversity will be part of almost all our lives.
So it is not in escaping adversity,
but in answering it, that our
character is defined.
Christopher Warren
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Never rejoice at other people's
misfortunes for you cannot
know when adversity may come to you.
Old Testament
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In
the hour of adversity be not without hope
For crystal rain falls from black clouds.
Nizami |
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It's
kind of a test, Mary, and it's the only kind that amounts to
anything.
When something rotten like this happens, then you have your
choice.
You start to really be alive, or you start to die.
That's all.
James Agee
A Death in the Family |
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If
I had a formula for bypassing
trouble, I would not pass it round.
Trouble creates a capacity to handle
it. I don't embrace trouble; that's
as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for
you'll see a lot of it and had better
be on speaking terms with it.
Oliver
Wendell Holmes
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The
most beautiful people we have known are those who have known
defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and
have found
their way out of the depths. These persons have an
appreciation, a
sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them
with compassion,
gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do
not just happen.
Elisabeth
Kuebler-Ross |
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You will not grow if
you sit in a beautiful flower garden,
but you
will grow if you are sick, in pain, experience losses,
and if you
do not put your
head in the sand, but take the pain
and learn
to accept it, not as a
curse or punishment,
but as a gift to you
with a very, very specific purpose.
Elisabeth
Kübler-Ross
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Twenty
years of living with a life-threatening disease, cancer,
brings
me into daily conversations with my soul. My healing
has depended
upon these as much or more as it has on medical
expertise. I think
cancer was my soul's desperate attempt to get me to pay
attention to
its needs for intimacy, authentic expression, creativity,
and replenishing
solitude. I think of cancer as a teacher that was not
invited,
but has come to my house to visit from time to time
nonetheless.
Dawna
Markova
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The
difficulties, hardships, and trials of life, the obstacles
one encounters on
the road to fortune, are positive blessings. They knit
the muscles more firmly,
and teach self-reliance. Peril is the element in which
power is developed.
William Matthews |
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Our
real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains,
losses, and disappointments; but let us have patience,
and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
Joseph Addison |
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Adversity
can be a great advantage to any person, for it rouses our
resources,
excites our energies, stimulates our skill, and fires our
fortitude.
Fred van Amburgh |
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To accept struggle as
part of life, to accept all of it, even the darkest moments
of anguish; to be motivated by love rather than fear, by
confidence rather than
insecurity: these are the benchmarks of high
self-esteem. The wish to avoid
fear and pain is not the motive that drives the lives of
highly evolved men and
women; rather, it is the life force within them, thrusting
toward its unique form
of expression--the actualization of personal values.
Nathaniel
Branden
Self-Esteem
Every Day |
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The
more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without,
the more
significant and the higher in inspiration his or her life
will be.
Horace Bushnell |
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If
there are difficulties in your path, be thankful for
them. They will
test your capabilities of resistance; you will be impelled
to
persevere from the very energy of the opposition.
William Punshon |
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I write
about adversity, I praise adversity, not to be pessimistic,
but
rather to strengthen myself. The more familiar that you are
with it, the
less likely you are to have a breakdown when it occurs. You
become
more reflective of its purpose, you understand God's reason
for it,
and are then able to make the best of everything that you
are handed.
The darkness is only frightening after constant sunshine.
Criss Jami |
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God's
way of dealing with us is to throw us into situations over
our depth, then supply us with the necessary ability to
swim.
Catherine Marshall |
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Courage, brothers and sisters! Do not
stumble, though thy path be as
dark as night; there's a star to guide the humble.
Trust in God and do the right.
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