Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
The utility of adversity is to draw inspiration, wisdom and strength from it.
(n.) Opposition; contrariety.
...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...
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...
Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
What is heroic is not making life any harder that it has to be.
Confidence is this: Wearing your triumphs with humility, and wearing your scars with pride. Many of us do precisely the opposite.
If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to b...
Greatness is the flower of great adversity.
I love those who can smile in trouble...
You told me once that too much good in a person's life will stunt their growth. You said pain is necessary, because in order for a person to succeed, they must first learn to conquer adversity. And th...
Whenever there is chaos it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.
They sicken of calm who know the storm.
The English nation is never so great as in adversity.
I have been in sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows with a harp and sword in my hands.
If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.
Never to suffer would have been never to have been blessed.
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...
Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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...
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