Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.
Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us–and those around us — more effectively. Look for the learning.
Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
People are like stained — glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within
People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.
Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.
Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
Some people bear three kinds of trouble — the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.
Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, ''Shake well before using.'' That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.
Stumbling is not falling.
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.
Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.
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