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Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education.
To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun.
To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Epictetus

We cannot be guilty of a greater act of uncharitableness,
than to interpret the afflictions which befall our neighbors
as punishments and judgments.

Joseph Addison

There is in every person's heart a spark of heavenly fire
which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity,
but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Washington Irving

Harry Emerson Fosdick

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The worst thing in your life may contain seeds of the best.
When you can see crisis as an opportunity,
your life becomes not easier, but more satisfying.

Joe Kogel

Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of
hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of
character but strengthen it.  Every conquering temptation represents
a new fund of moral energy.  Every trial endured and weathered in the
right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

James Buckham

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant:  if we did not
sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

Anne Bradstreet

Ann Landers

Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals.
I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.

Lou Holtz

Earl Nightingale

We do not know what we can bear until we are put to the test.  Many a
delicate mother, who thought that she could not survive the death of her
children, has lived to bury her husband and the last one of a large
family, and in addition to all this has seen her home and last dollar swept
away; yet she has had the courage to bear it all and to go on as before.
When the need comes, there is a power deep within us that answers the call.

Orison Swett Marden

In the hour of adversity be not without hope
For crystal rain falls from black clouds.

Nizami

"It's kind of a test, Mary, and it's the only kind that amounts to anything.
When something rotten like this happens, then you have your choice.
You start to really be alive, or you start to die.  That's all."

James Agee in A Death in the Family

If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it round.
Trouble creates a capacity to handle it.  I don't embrace trouble; that's
as bad as treating it as an enemy.  But I do say meet it as a friend, for
you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Sometimes, the problems you must face are more than you wish to cope with,
and tomorrow doesn't seem to offer any solutions.  You may ask yourself "Why
me?" but the answer is sometimes unclear.  You may even tend to feel that life
hasn't been just or fair to burden you with such obstacles.  The roads any of us
choose to follow are never free of bumps or curves, but eventually the turns
lead to a smoother path ahead.  Believe in yourself and your dreams.  You will
soon realize that the future holds many promises for you.  Remember. . .
difficult times don't last forever.

Geri Danks