Everybody's heart is open you know when they have recently escaped from severe pain or are recovering the blessing of health.
Do not show your wounded finger for everything will knock up against it.
(n.) Opposition; contrariety.
The struggle to the top is in itself enough to fulfill the human heart. Sisyphus should be regarded as happy.
We cannot infer from prosperity that God is pleased with us, nor can we infer from adversity that he is displeased with us.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
In times of your need, you will know your true friends.
When the going gets tough, the tough get going
Life begins on the other side of despair.
Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
The virtue of prosperity is temperance the virtue of adversity is fortitude.
By becoming more unhappy we sometimes learn how to be less so.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties.
I think my biggest achievement is that after going through a rather difficult time I consider myself comparatively sane. I'm proud of that.
We say: mad with joy. We should say: wise with grief.
Every time you meet a situation though you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the torture of the damned once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever afte...
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
There is often in people to whom "the worst" has happened an almost transcendent freedom for they have faced "the worst" and survived it.