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A bad grade is only one letter in the Essay of life. ~Lee Drake

A bend in the road is not the end of the road... unless you fail to make the turn. ~Author Unknown

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. ~King Solomon

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune. ~Horace

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted adversity. ~Sa'di

A new wound makes all the old ones ache again. ~Mignon McLaughlin

A problem is a chance for you to do your best. ~Duke Ellington

A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider. ~Anne Bradstreet

Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records. ~William Arthur Ward

Adversity enhances this tale we call life. ~Terri Guillemets

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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself. ~Samuel Johnson

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant. ~Horace

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight. ~Josh Billings

Adversity introduces a man to himself. ~Author Unknown

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid. ~Elizabeth Hardwick

Adversity is a stimulus. ~James Broughton

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are. ~Arthur Golden

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity. ~Elvis Presley

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with. ~Thomas Carlyle

Adversity is the first path to truth. ~Lord Byron

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Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then. ~John Wooden

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not. ~Henry Fielding

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us. ~Samuel Johnson

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. ~Victor Hugo

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it. ~Horace

Adversity tests us from time to time and it is inevitable that this testing continues during life. ~Walter Annenberg

Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless. ~Scott Hamilton

Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. ~Walt Disney

Allow yourself a moment of grief when life's misfortunes visit you. However, do not spend your days building a monument in honor of them. ~Dodinsky

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Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. ~Helen Keller

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity. ~Og Mandino

Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in. ~James Reston

Anything, anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumbles and caresses one and never hurts quite enough. ~Jean-Paul Sartre

As a lifelong practitioner of martial arts, I'm trained to remain calm in the face of adversity and danger. ~Steven Seagal

As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times. ~Orson Scott Card

Bad is never good until worse happens. ~Danish Proverb

Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. ~Robert Service

Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity. ~Periander

Better bread with water than cake with trouble. ~Russian Proverb

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Better to lose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles. ~Maltbie D. Babcock

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them? ~Rose F. Kennedy

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war. ~Lucius Annaeus Seneca

But ne'er the rose without the thorn. ~Robert Herrick

By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown. ~Samuel Daniel

By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean. ~Mark Twain

Bygone troubles are good to tell. ~Yiddish Proverb

Calamity, n. A more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering. ~Ambrose Bierce

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has. ~Billy Graham

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength. ~August Wilson

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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture. ~Charles Caleb Colton

Convert difficulties into opportunities, for difficulties are divine surgeries to make you better. ~Author Unknown

Count the garden by the flowers, never by the leaves that fall. Count your life with smiles and not the tears that roll. ~Author Unknown

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things. ~Winston Churchill

Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive. ~Josephine Hart

Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out. ~Edwin Markham

Despair is anger with no place to go. ~Mignon McLaughlin

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel. ~Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars. ~Violeta Parra

During the darkest indigo midnight, yet will countless stars blossom. ~Dr. SunWolf

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Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. ~Aristotle

Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings. ~Antoine de Saint

Even when life isn't good on the outside, you have an option to make it good from the inside out. ~Terri Guillemets

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit. ~Napoleon Hill

Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom. ~Coventry Patmore

Every path hath a puddle. ~George Herbert

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds. ~Norman Vincent Peale

Everybody ought to do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice. ~William James

Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance. ~Scott Hamilton

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. ~Truman Capote

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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men. ~Martha Graham

Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower. ~Jean Paul Richter

For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity. ~George Santayana

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy. ~Boethius

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience. ~Author Unknown

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. ~George Washington

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity. ~Charles Caleb Colton

God brings men into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse them. ~John Aughey

God gave burdens, also shoulders. ~Yiddish Proverb

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God uses suffering as a whetstone, to make men sharp with. ~Henry Ward Beecher

Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity. ~Abu Bakr

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light. ~Steven Kloves

Happiness is beneficial for the body but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. ~Marcel Proust

Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power. ~Seneca

Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargained for. ~Stanislaus

Having is not so pleasing a thing as wanting, it may not be logical but it is often true. ~Mr. Spock, Star Trek

He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity. ~William Samuel Johnson

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. ~Edmund Burke

He who does not tire, tires adversity. ~Martin Farquhar Tupper

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He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker. ~Antonio Porchia

I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. ~Jewish Proverb

I bear a little more than I can bear. ~Elinor Hoyt Wylie

I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering. ~Colette

I consider adversity being good sometimes you know. ~Brett Favre

I contend that not only can you laugh at adversity, but it is essential to do so if you are to deal with setbacks without defeat. ~Allen Klein

I desire an special interest in your prayers that my faith fail not in the day of adversity. ~John Hawley

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them. ~Boris Pasternak

I fell off my pink cloud with a thud. ~Elizabeth Taylor

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I guess if you take away the pain in life it means having no beauty to hope for. ~Daniel

I had a lover's quarrel with the world. ~Robert Frost

I have definitely gone through my ups and downs and faced my adversity and my nay-sayers, but managed to do all right. It is a pretty classic tale. ~Steve Nash

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. ~Agatha Christie

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken. ~William Stafford

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much. ~Mother Teresa

I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress. ~André Gide

I think really what I'm saying is that I thrive on adversity. ~Richard Marx

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart. ~Socrates

If God asks that you bend, bend and do not complain. He is making you more flexible, and for this be thankful. ~Terri Guillemets

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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

If the thunder is not loud, the peasant forgets to cross himself. ~Russian Proverb

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. ~Latin Proverb

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. ~Henry David Thoreau

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience. ~Robert Fulghum

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere. ~Frank A. Clark

If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it. ~Mary Engelbreit

If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You

If you want a place in the sun, you've got to expect a few blisters. ~Abigail van Buren

If you want to forget all your other troubles, wear too tight shoes. ~The Houghton Line

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If you're going through hell, keep going. ~Winston Churchill

If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change. ~John A. Simone, Sr.

I'll say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that's more than I can say for prosperity. ~Kin Hubbard

I'm used to adversity and working really well in difficult situations. It was hard for me to accept the success. ~Paula Cole

In adversity remember to keep an even mind. ~Horace

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

In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne

In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends. ~John Churton Collins

In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us. ~Brigham Young

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider. ~King Solomon

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In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. ~Oscar Wilde

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive. ~Lee Iacocca

Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward. ~Wilma Mankiller

Invite your melancholy outside for a walk. Or read it a poem. Or bake it chocolate chip cookies. ~Dr. SunWolf

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. ~John Steinbeck

It is always in the midst, in the epicenter, of your troubles that you find serenity. ~Antoine de Saint

It is better to drink of deep griefs than to taste shallow pleasures. ~William Hazlitt

It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity. ~Horace

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness. ~Cicero

It just wouldn't be a picnic without the ants. ~Author Unknown

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It's not easy taking my problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line. ~Ashleigh Brilliant

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course. ~William Shakespeare

Let your joy scream across the pain. ~Terri Guillemets

Life didn't promise to be wonderful. ~Teddy Pendergrass

Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating. ~O. Henry

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. ~Voltaire

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat. ~Anais Nin

Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good. ~Lucy Larcom

Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything. ~William Faulkner

Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable. ~Tacitus

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May you get what you wish for. ~Old Chinese Curse

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age. ~Lactantius

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war. ~Homer, Iliad

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle. ~James Russell Lowell

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win. ~Stephen King

My strength is made perfect in weakness. ~II Corinthians

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. ~Abraham Lincoln

No man ought to lay a cross upon himself, or to adopt tribulation, as is done in popedom; but if a cross or tribulation come upon him, then let him suffer it patiently, and know that it is good and profitable for him. ~Martin Luther

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed than one in adversity. ~Plutarch

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness. ~André Gide

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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity. ~Albert Schweitzer

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. ~M. Kathleen Casey

Pain is sometimes the cost of a meaningful existence. I can handle that. ~Jeb Dickerson

Past and to come, seems best; things present, worse. ~William Shakespeare

People are resilient. After all, every person born has recovered from nine months on life support. ~Robert Brault

People don't ever seem to relate that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune. ~William McFee

Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. ~Rainer Maria Rilke

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us. ~Rainer Maria Rilke

Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Problems are messages. ~Shakti Gawain

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Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them. ~Hugh Miller

Problems are the price you pay for progress. ~Branch Rickey

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. ~William Hazlitt

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends. ~Plutarch

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. ~Francis Bacon

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New. ~Francis Bacon

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. ~Publilius Syrus

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great. ~Rose Kennedy

Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Remember the great adversity of art or anything else is a hurried life. ~Robert James Waller

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Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity. ~Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Rock bottom is good solid ground, and a dead end street is just a place to turn around. ~Buddy Buie and J.R. Cobb

Sadness flowers to the next renewing joy. ~Terri Guillemets

Scars tell us more about the future than the past, about how we can live strong despite any pain we've been through. ~Terri Guillemets

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity. ~Lou Holtz

Sleep, riches, and health to be truly enjoyed must be interrupted. ~Johann Paul

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. ~African Proverb

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known. ~Garrison Keillor

Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers. ~Garth Brooks

Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering - that is a fact. ~Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful. ~Zig Ziglar

Sometimes I think my life would make a great TV movie. It even has the part where they say, "Stand by. We are experiencing temporary difficulties." ~Robert Brault

Sometimes in tragedy we find our life's purpose - the eye sheds a tear to find its focus. ~Robert Brault

Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose. ~Billie Holiday

Sometimes the littlest things in life are the hardest to take. You can sit on a mountain more comfortably than on a tack. ~Author Unknown

Suffering is above, not below. And everyone thinks that suffering is below. And everyone wants to rise. ~Antonio Porchia

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head. ~William Shakespeare

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune. ~Chanakya

That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not. ~James K. Feibleman

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them. ~Bernard M. Baruch

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The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. ~Virginia Woolf

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity. ~Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The brook would lose its song if you removed the rocks. ~Fred Beck

The cold is a good counselor, but it is cold. ~Antonio Porchian

The course of true anything never does run smooth. ~Samuel Butler

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The dark and the light are braided and bound. ~Marc Ian Barasch

The darkest hour has only sixty minutes. ~Morris Mandel

The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter. ~Author Unknown

The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame. ~Charles Caleb Colton

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity. ~Ulysses S. Grant

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The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials. ~Confucius

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired. ~Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he's got an abscess on his knee or in his soul. ~Rona Barrett

The horror of that moment," the King went on, "I shall never, never forget!" "You will, though," the Queen said, "if you don't make a memorandum of it. ~Lewis Carroll

The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity. ~Alan Gregg

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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities. ~Sophocles

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil. ~C. S. Lewis

The misfortunes of mankind are of varied plumage. ~Aeschylus

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work. ~Harry Golden

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances. ~Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem. ~Theodore Rubin

The problem with troubleshooting is that trouble shoots back. ~Author Unknown

The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief. ~William Shakespeare

The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears. ~John Vance Cheney

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. ~Norman Vincent Peale

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The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt. ~Max Lerner

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. ~Michel de Montaigne

There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering. ~Antonio Porchia

There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it. ~Author Unknown

There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men. ~Nicolas Chamfort

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There is in every true woman'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

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time. ~Malcolm X

There is no education like adversity. ~Benjamin Disraeli

There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury. ~Alexander Smith

There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with. ~Harry Crews

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There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out. ~Lou Reed

There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you. ~Woody Hayes

They say a reasonable amount 'o fleas is good fer a dog - keeps him from broodin' over bein' a dog, mebbe. ~Edward Westcott

Things are never so bad they can't be made worse. ~From the movie The African Queen

Those who kept their sanity and humanity intact in the face of awful adversity. Heroes named and unnamed, some known only to God. ~Silvia Cartwright

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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. ~Bertrand Russell

To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered. ~Oscar Wilde

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it. ~Jean Anouilh

Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things. ~Henry Ward Beecher

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation. ~George Washington

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Turn your wounds into wisdom. ~Oprah Winfrey

Very often out of adversity that's when the best work comes. ~Tom Cochrane

Watch a man in times of... adversity to discover what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off. ~Lucretius

We acquire the strength we have overcome. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right. ~Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one. ~John Updike

We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't. ~Frank A. Clark

We have no right to ask when sorrow comes, "Why did this happen to me?" unless we ask the same question for every moment of happiness that comes our way. ~Author Unknown

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. ~Kenji Miyazawa

We must try not to sink beneath our anguish... but battle on. ~J.K. Rowling

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We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival. ~Winston Churchill

We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them. ~Charles C. West

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides. ~David Hare

What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's. ~Olin Miller

Whatever changes the new era brings, whatever new pathways we take, I am sure that our special relationship with America - forged in adversity, will not change. ~Mary McAleese

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When adversity strikes, that's when you have to be the most calm. Take a step back, stay strong, stay grounded and press on. ~LL Cool J

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile. ~Author Unknown

When life gives you lemons, please, just don't squirt them in other people's eyes. ~J. Andrew Helt

When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars. ~Robert Brault

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When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one. ~Mignon McLaughlin

When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful. ~Barbara Bloom

When written in Chinese the word "crisis" is composed of two characters - one represents danger and the other represents opportunity. ~John F. Kennedy

When you're feeling your worst, that's when you get to know yourself the best. ~Leslie Grossman

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies. ~Erich Fromm

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Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not. ~Henry Fielding

Would you touch a nettle without being stung by it? take hold of it stoutly. Do the same to other annoyances, and hardly will anything annoy you. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare

Yes, one must suffer, even in vain, so as not to have lived in vain. ~Antonio Porchia

You can't run away from trouble. There ain't no place that far. ~Uncle Remus

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. ~Epicurus

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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave. ~Henry Ward Beecher

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. ~Walt Disney

You never know what you've got until it's gone. ~Author Unknown

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity. ~Walt Schmidt

Your heart has been sore wounded too. Dear Light, love shall cherish you, till you again look on life with happy eyes. ~Byron Caldwell Smith

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. ~Bill Gates

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