I'm used to adversity and working really well in difficult situations. It was hard for me to accept the success.
The darkest clouds precipitate the most rain.
(n.) Opposition; contrariety.
Flowers have to stretch to bloom.
Caged birds still sing beautiful symphonies.
The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience the task of surviving prosperity.
Mistakes are often the best teachers.
By becoming more unhappy we sometimes learn how to be less so.
When one's own problems are unsolvable and all best efforts are frustrated it is lifesaving to listen to other people's problems.
There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint.
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.
An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men.
The devil will never rest, nor sleep, nor turn his head from you. He will find every fault, every weakness, every discrepancy he can magnify, expand and contort every sin to cause you to abort your mi...
When in pain and sorrow, you ask why God allows bad things to happen to good people, remember God allowed His Son, the best of us, to suffer the most so that Christ would have the ability to heal us.
A star will shine in the midst of darkness.A flower will bloom in the midst of dirt.A camel will flourish in the midst of doubt.A diamond will form in the midst of pressure.A champion will rise in the...
In the midst of the disappointment, we find faith as an anchor!
Our failures make us who we are; they build our character, we are defined by what we do with them, and how we respond to adversity. Without failure there is no growth, no striving for better, no adjus...
Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
Of all the things people have taught me regarding life lessons or anything that would benefit me, I don't think anything helped me learn more about life than football. You go through so many different...