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Adversity

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

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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

Horace

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

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Devito, Danny

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

Ward, William A.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

It's a matter of ABC: When we encounter ADVERSITY, we react by thinking about it. Our thoughts rapidly congeal into BELIEFS. These beliefs may become so habitual we don't even realize we have them unless we stop to focus on them. And they don't just sit there idly; they have CONSEQUENCES. The beliefs are the direct cause of what we feel and what we do next. They can spell the difference between dejection and giving up, on the one hand, and well-being and constructive action on the other. The first step is to see the connection between adversity, belief, and consequence. The second step is to see how the ABCs operate every day in your own life.

Seligman, Martin E. P.

Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

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Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Russell, Rosalind

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Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.

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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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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Rogers, James

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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Hill, Napoleon

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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Paine, Thomas

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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Weltman, Phil

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

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There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

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Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Schmidt, Walt

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

Landers, Ann

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The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Seneca

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Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.

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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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As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

Kempis, Thomas

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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Shain, Merle

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In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.

Leonard, George

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No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

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The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

France, Anatole

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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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When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee