By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man s, I mean.
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness –a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.
Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?
Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.
Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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]
Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.
Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.
Every burden is a blessing.
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.
Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
Every silver lining has a cloud.
Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.
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