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We
win half the battle when we
make up our minds to take the world
as we find it, including the thorns.
Orison
Swett Marden |
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The
human capacity to fight back will always astonish
doctors and philosophers. It seems, indeed, that
there are no circumstances so bad and no obstacles so big
that human beings cannot conquer them.
Jean
Tetreau |
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If we fight
against the waves that pass
over us in life, we are
overpowered.
If we move with the waves in life
as they roll over us, the wave passes on.
Pesikta Zurtarti
The
happy and efficient people in this world are those
who accept trouble as a normal detail of human life
and resolve to capitalize it when it comes along.
H.
Bertram Lewis |
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When
things are bad, we take comfort
in the thought that they could always be worse.
And when they are, we find hope in the thought
that things are so bad they have to get better.
Malcolm
Forbes |
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When the first
Superman movie came out, I was frequently asked, "What
is a hero?"
My answer was that a hero is someone who commits a
courageous action
without considering the consequences. . . . Now my
definition is completely different.
I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength
to persevere
and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
Christopher Reeve |
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Sometimes
things which at the moment may be perceived as obstacles--
and actually be obstacles, difficulties, or drawbacks--can
in the long run
result in some good end which would not have occurred if it
had not been for the obstacle.
Steve
Allen |
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We
all have to go through the tumbler
a few times before we can emerge
as a crystal.
Elisabeth
Kuebler-Ross |
The
gem cannot be polished
without friction, nor people
perfected without trials.
Chinese
saying |
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When
you get into a tight place and everything goes
against you, till it seems as though you could not
hang on a minute longer, never give up then,
for that is just the place and time
that the tide will turn.
Harriet
Beecher Stowe |
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Positive
thinking is not the destination; it is the journey.
An optimistic person
will be constantly challenged – by external circumstances
as well as
inner fears and doubts.
Always remember that these tests are like
a ladder you must climb.
As you move past each rung, your optimism
strengthens and your confidence begins to flex newly found
muscle
that you might never have developed otherwise.
Montague
Ewards |
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Our
lives are full of separations that shake us up, force us to
attend
to our emotional selves and to learn new ways of being in
the world.
Although many of our losses are painful, they encourage our
gains.
The lesson life is trying to teach us is that, regardless of
the challenges
and changes in the physical world, we will abide in peace by
aligning
ourselves with our inner changelessness.
The power of God in us
is more than equal to any moment—no matter what it brings.
We live in a loving, supportive universe that is always
saying yes to us.
Susan
L. Taylor |
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Defeat is a school in which Truth always grows
strong.
Henry Ward Beecher |
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Before
you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and
delays
quite impossible to foresee are ahead. . . .
You can only see one thing
clearly and that is your goal.
Form a mental vision of that
and cling to it through thick and thin.
Kathleen Norris |
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Those
who can’t endure the bad will not live to see the good.
Yiddish proverb |
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I heard a story about a
woman who grew up in Texas.
When she was
having trouble in her life, she would visit her grandmother,
who lived nearby
and always had a kind word and some wisdom to pass on.
One day
she was complaining to her grandmother about some situation
and
her grandmother just turned to her, smiled sadly, and said,
“Sometimes, darlin’, you’ve just got to rise above
yourself in this life.”
I’ve
remembered that wise advice many times as I’ve faced
trouble in my life.
Bill O’Hanlon |
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Though the fig tree does not blossom, nor
fruit be on the vines,
the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food,
the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in
the stalls,
yet I will rejoice in the Lord.
from the Book of Habakkuk |
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People
are afraid when dark clouds gather and thunder clashes.
But clouds and thunder are nothing; they are only the
sources
of rain for the hot and parched earth. Do not be
afraid of clouds;
do not be afraid of difficulties. Keep moving straight
ahead.
Give your hand to God, and he will keep you
in the light twenty-four hours a day.
Baba
Virsa Singh |
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It
is the wind and the rain, O God, the cold and the storm that
make
this earth of yours to blossom and bear its fruit. So
in our lives
it is storm and stress and hurt and suffering that make real
men
and women bring the world's work to its highest perfection.
W.E.B.
DuBois |
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