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...
There is often in people to whom "the worst" has happened an almost transcendent freedom for they have faced "the worst" and survived it.
(n.) Opposition; contrariety.
"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."
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.
Night brings our troubles to the light rather than banishes them.
When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore.
So, with my knees pierced by needles and my shoulder sewn together by the slender thread of endorphins, I keep to my genuflection and end my story the only way that really fits. As a prayer that seals...
It is in the whole process of meeting and solving problems that life has meaning. Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems call forth our courage and our...
Change is an opportunity to grow. Change is not an adversity to fear.
Life, like classical music, is full of difficult passages that are conquered as much through endurance and determination as through any particular skill.
For the first time in my life, I fully realized that I was not in charge. I knew that I needed to submit to Heavenly Father's will. I couldn't have what I wanted when and how I wanted it just because...
Don't let others control who you should be, or try to make you do what you don't want to. It will eat away at your soul. Believe it or not, you are the maker of your own destiny. You are the only one...
When you are in love, you are in an aura of aplomb in the midst of adversity.
Success goes to the ones who do. Get up. Show up. Throw up if you have to. Do it afraid, but do it no matter.
Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.
When the world is in the midst of change, when adversity and opportunity are almost indistinguishable, this is the time for visionary leadership and when leaders need to look beyond the survival needs...