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Adversity

Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.

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Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it. [Mathew 7:13-14]

Bible

In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

Collier, Robert

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Russell, Rosalind

It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

Advisor, Heartland

We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case.

Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Scott, Sir Walter

Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Ransom, Ralph

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Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul

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You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Schmidt, Walt

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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Bennet, Arnold

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They that sow in tears shall reap joy. [Psalms 126:5]

Bible

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The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Scott, Sir Walter

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The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

Rogers, Will

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God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.

Macdonald, George

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Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

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Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Brown, Les

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Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Ford, Elias A.

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I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Walton, Sam

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If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

Sheehan, George

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In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

Hoffman, Dustin

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If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.

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Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

Homer

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It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

Heraclitus

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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.

Ward, William A.

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As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.

Horace

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I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.

Bryant, William C.

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Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Landers, Ann

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Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Bible

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Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.

Chambers, Oswald

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A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

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Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

Gesser

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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a misfortune but To bear this worthily is good fortune.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Post, Laurens Van du

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If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.