Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there?
Fire tries gold misfortune men.
(n.) Opposition; contrariety.
The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour to the latest generation.
Thou hast shown thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.
A wounded deer leaps the highest.
The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities my capacities.
Whenever there is chaos it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.
I have always been pushed by the negative.... The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if...
For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be a hundred or if I get to be a trillionaire.
To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.
Every failure made me more confident. Because I wanted even more to achieve things as revenge. To show that I could.
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.
Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
Some minds seem almost to create themselves springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint.
Treasure the memories of past misfortunes they constitute our bank of fortitude.
Necessity is often the spur to genius.
Necessity is the mother of "taking chances."
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
People wish to be settled only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.
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