Impossible is what you say to yourself when you have given up.
Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
(n.) Opposition; contrariety.
It is at night, not in the day, that stars shine the brightest.
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.
Your mind is greater than your problems,your heart is greater than your troubles,your soul is greater than your temptations,and your God is greater than your obstacles.
When darkness comes,stars shine.When storms come,plants flourish.When adversity comes,champions triumph.
A flower does not lose its beauty because it grew on concrete.
Flowers still have to stretch to bloom.
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...
I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief struggle and flashes of vision which enlighten.
Flowers have to stretch to bloom.
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.
The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow.
The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.
To live is to suffer to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
Difficulties are meant to rouse not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
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.
When things come to the worse they generally mend.
"The world is a wheel always turning " philosophized Mrs. Pelz. "Those who were high go down low and those who've been low go up higher."
Broken pencils still write beautiful songs.
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