Through storms you are able to get all the colors you need to paint the rainbow.
The hotter the furnace the finer the gold.
(n.) Opposition; contrariety.
Only because of darkness are we able to clearly see the stars.
Sorrow has its reward. It never leaves us where it found us.
A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
I thank God for my handicaps for through them I have found myself my work and my God.
"The world is a wheel always turning " philosophized Mrs. Pelz. "Those who were high go down low and those who've been low go up higher."
When things come to the worse they generally mend.
The English nation is never so great as in adversity.
Men strive for peace but it is their enemies that give them strength and I think if man no longer had enemies he would have to invent them for his strength only grows from struggle.
Strong people are made by opposition like kites that go up against the wind.
They sicken of calm who know the storm.
Difficulties opposition criticism - these things are meant to be overcome and there is a special joy in facing them and in coming out on top. It is only when there is nothing but praise that life...
Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint.
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...
I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
Even in the deepest sinking there is the hidden purpose of an ultimate rising. Thus it is for all men from none is the source of light withheld unless he himself withdraws from it. Therefore the most...
(Adversity is) the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself being especially free from admirers then.
Weeping may endure for a night but joy cometh in the morning.
People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.