I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief struggle and flashes of vision which enlighten.
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...
(n.) Opposition; contrariety.
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.
Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression...
The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation.
A diamond is a chunk of coal that made good under pressure.
Unless a man has been kicked around a little you can't really depend upon him to amount to anything.
It is not in the still calm of life or the repose of a pacific station that great characters are formed. ... Great necessities call out great virtues.
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.
At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.
Supporting myself at an early age was the best training for life I could have possibly received.
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...
When one's own problems are unsolvable and all best efforts are frustrated it is lifesaving to listen to other people's problems.
He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.
I think the years I have spent in prison have been the most formative and important in my life because of the discipline the sensations but chiefly the opportunity to think clearly to try to unders...
Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affection or grief has humanized the soul.
Trouble brings experience and experience brings wisdom.
A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
We only think when we are confronted with a problem.
Life can be real tough ... you can either learn from your problems or keep repeating them over and over.
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