Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.
Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains
Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches
Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine
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.
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.
No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.
No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.
No pressure, no diamonds.
No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.
Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth
Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.
One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.
One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
Only entropy comes easy.
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