Suffering is also one of the ways of knowing you're alive.
If a ship is strong, the ocean's tides do not trouble it.
(n.) Opposition; contrariety.
When God pushes you off a cliff, it is your faith He wants you to use as wings.
We can't always take the higher road when faced with adversity. Sometimes for the sake of restoration, peace and sharing the love of Jesus, we have to walk through the tribulation.
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
Times of stress and difficulty are seasons of opportunity when the seeds of progress are sown.
...My deepest personal reason for staying in Paris is that whatever I have as a character, good or bad, is based on the fact that since the age of four I have never run away from anything however pain...
Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
In spite of discouragement and adversity, those who are happiest seem to have a way of learning from difficult times, becoming stronger, wiser and happier as a result.
No difficulty can discourage, no obstacle dismay, no trouble dishearten the man who has acquired the art of being alive. Difficulties are but dares of fate, obstacles but hurdles to try his skill, tro...
There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle.
Men habitually use only a small part of the powers which they possess and which they might use under appropriate circumstances.
It is only the women whose eyes have been washed clear with tears who get the broad vision that makes them little sisters to all the world.
I guess pencil crayons are like life; we hope to gain wisdom through our experiences, and sadly many of us learn important lessons later in life - however all that colour we scratched and pressed into...
Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
I have always grown from my problems and challenges from the things that don't work out. That's when I've really learned.
You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.
If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.