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Never
forget that God tests
his real friends
more severely
than the lukewarm ones.
Kathryn
Hulme
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adversity 2
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The
first question to be answered by any individual or any social group,
facing a hazardous situation, is whether the crisis is to be met as
a
challenge to strength or as an occasion for despair.
Harry
Emerson Fosdick
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Adversity,
if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure
to bring
a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at
such times.
Storms purify the atmosphere.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Mishaps
are like knives, that either serve us or cut us,
as we
grasp them by the blade or the handle.
James
Russell Lowell
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You can think about your problems or you can
worry about them, and there is
a vast difference between
the two. Worry is thinking that has turned toxic.
It is jarring music that goes round and round and never
comes to either
climax or conclusion. Thinking works its
way through problems
to conclusions
and decisions; worry
leaves you in a state of tensely
suspended animation.
When you worry, you go over the same ground endlessly
and
come out the
same place you started. Thinking makes
progress from one place
to
another; worry remains static. The problem of life is to change worry
into thinking and
anxiety into creative action.
Harold B. Walker
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It is
in the whole process of meeting and
solving problems that
life has meaning.
Problems are the cutting edge
that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems
call
forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they
create our courage
and our wisdom. It is only because of
problems that we grow mentally and spiritually. It
is through the pain of confronting and resolving problems
that we learn.
M.
Scott Peck
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I
walked slowly out on the beach. A few yards below high-water
mark I stopped and read the words again:
WRITE YOUR WORRIES ON THE SAND.
I let the paper blow away, reached down and
picked up a fragment of shell. Kneeling there under the
vault of the sky, I wrote several words, one above the
other.
Then I walked away, and I did not look back.
I had written my troubles on the sand.
The tide was coming in.
Arthur Gordon
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Sweet are the uses
of adversity,
Which, like the toad, ugly and venemous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;
And this our life, exempt in public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in every thing.
I would not change it.
William Shakespeare
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We do not
succeed in changing things according to our desire,
but
gradually our desire changes. The situation that we
hoped
to change because it was intolerable becomes
unimportant.
We have not managed to surmount the obstacle,
as we were
absolutely determined to do, but life has
taken us round it,
led us past it, and then if we turn
round to gaze at the remote past,
we can barely catch
sight of it, so imperceptible has it become.
Marcel Proust
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Only
in winter can you tell which trees are truly green.
Only when the winds of adversity blow can
you tell
whether an individual or a country has
steadfastness.
John
F. Kennedy
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People of character
find a special attractiveness in
difficulty,
since it is only by coming to grips with
difficulty
that they can realize their potentialities.
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Charles
DeGaulle
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The mark of your ignorance is the
depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy.
What the
caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls
a butterfly.
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We
could never learn to be brave and patient,
if there were
only joy in the world.
Helen Keller
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I am
an old man and have known
a great many troubles,
but most
of them have never happened.
Mark
Twain
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happens to anybody which they are not fitted by nature to
bear.
Marcus Aurelius
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To be
thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into
the
very lap of fortune, for our faculties then undergo
a
development and display an energy of which
they were
previously unsusceptible.
Benjamin Franklin
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If you will call your troubles
experiences, and remember that every experience
develops
some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and
happy,
however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.
John R. Miller
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Out of
suffering have emerged the
strongest souls; the most
massive
characters
are seared with scars.
Edwin H. Chapin |
Adversity
is the trial of principle.
Without it people hardly know
whether they are honest or not.
Henry Fielding |
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Emergencies
have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness
which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the
compass. It was
hunger that drove us to exploration. And
it took a depression
to show us the value of a job.
Victor Hugo
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Prosperity is a
great teacher; adversity is a greater.
Possession pampers the
mind; privation trains and strengthens it.
William Hazlitt
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Kites
rise highest against the wind--
not with it.
Winston Churchill |
Adversity causes some people to break;
others to break records.
William A. Ward |
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It
was a high speech of Seneca that "The good things which belong
to
prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong
to
adversity are to be admired."
Francis Bacon
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As the valley
gives height to the mountain,
so can sorrow
give meaning to pleasure;
as the well is the source of
the fountain,
deep adversity can be a
treasure.
William Ward |
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Hope and
patience are two sovereign remedies for all,
the surest reposals, the
softest cushions to lean on in adversity.
Robert Burton
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It
appears that when life is broken by tragedy God shines through the
breach.
George
A. Buttrick |
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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.
Edwin
Hubbell Chapman |
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.
Robert
Collier |
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