Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
Difficulties are meant to rouse not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
(n.) Opposition; contrariety.
It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure.
If you want peace in your life, you have to stop declaring war.
The school of suffering never graduates any students, so ask God to teach to you the lessons He wants you to learn.
So they had all had more troubles than she. Did that really make them superior? If two men were walking along the street and a brick fell on one, missing the other, did that make the injured one a bet...
Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affection or grief has humanized the soul.
When one's own problems are unsolvable and all best efforts are frustrated it is lifesaving to listen to other people's problems.
The most valuable gift I ever received was ... the gift of insecurity ... my father left us. My mother's love might not have prepared me for life the way my father's departure did. He forced us out on...
Adversity gives you the opportunity to exhibit godly character.
Supporting myself at an early age was the best training for life I could have possibly received.
Unless a man has been kicked around a little you can't really depend upon him to amount to anything.
The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation.
As there is no worldly gain without some loss so there is no worldly loss without some gain.... Set the allowance against the loss and thou shalt find no loss great.
Suffering has always been with us does it really matter in what form it comes? All that matters is how we bear it and how we fit it into our lives.
A candle is at its brightest in the dark.
And I think that's important to know how the water's gone over the dam before you start to describe it. It helps to have been over the dam yourself.
I have learned in the great University of Hard Knocks a philosophy that no woman who has had an easy life ever acquires. I have learned to live each day as it comes and not to borrow trouble by dread...
When I am passing through hell, I have to remind myself of the last time I happened to be on that road. How quickly it was over, without any ingenuity on my part. After all, hell is a one-way street....
you are not an athlete because of what you can do, but because of who you are: a team player, someone who never quits, who strives to be his personal best, and who believes in fair play.
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