Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.
If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
(n.) Opposition; contrariety.
Adversity is the mother of prosperity
The more I learn the less I know but once you learn adversity is opportunity all you do is grow.
Those who suffer great adversity and sorrow and go on to serve their fellowmen develop a great capacity to understand others. Like the prophets, they have acquired a higher understanding of the mind a...
Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.
Some minds seem almost to create themselves springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
The thought that we are enduring the unendurable is one of the things that keeps us going.
"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."
Life begins on the other side of despair.
It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.
There is often in people to whom "the worst" has happened an almost transcendent freedom for they have faced "the worst" and survived it.
I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.
The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.
Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it.
To live is to suffer to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
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.
Suffering has always been with us does it really matter in what form it comes? All that matters is how we bear it and how we fit it into our lives.
I think these difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way that so many things that one goes around worrying about are of no i...
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