If [we] have a good, miserable day once in a while, or several in a row, stand steady and face them. Things will straighten out. There is great purpose in our struggle in life.
a man in earnest finds means, or if he cannot find he creates them. A vigorous purpose makes much out of little, breathes power into weak instruments, disarms difficulties, and even turns them into as...
(n.) Opposition; contrariety.
If for a while the harder you try, the harder it gets, take heart. So it has been with the best people who ever lived. (The Inconvenient Messiah, BYU Speeches, Feb 15, 1982)
Suffering fuels strength.
Break a bone..and as the broken part heals it becomes the strongest part in it....get hit by a virus, survive that and "supposedly" it can never get u again... observe how ur skin that gets rubbed on...
...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...
It is adversity that often creates beauty.
Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
Everyone is handed adversity in life. No one's journey is easy. It's how they handle it that makes people unique.
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...
One who was adored by all in prosperity is abhorred by all in adversity.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
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...
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.
The burden is equal to the horse's strength.
Times of stress and difficulty are seasons of opportunity when the seeds of progress are sown.
Greatness is the flower of great adversity.
Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls the most massive characters are seared with scars.