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Adversity is not undesirable. Because it is
only when you are
down and out in life
that you can realize its true value.
Papa Ramdas
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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
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The
truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur
when
we are
feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or
unfulfilled. For it is
only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we
are
likely to step out of our
ruts and start searching
for different ways or truer answers.
M. Scott
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If
you have not clung to a broken piece of your old ship in the
dark night
of the soul, your faith may not have the sustaining
power
to carry you through to the end of the journey.
Rufus
M. Jones
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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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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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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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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.
Richard
Bach
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Nothing
happens to anybody which they are not fitted by nature to
bear.
Marcus Aurelius
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If you yield to
adversity, the chances are it will master you, but
if you recognize in yourself the power of mastery over
conditions, then adversity will yield to you.
Ralph Waldo Trine |
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Adversity may call out dormant
powers that have never before been suspected.
Alice H. Rice |
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Avoiding difficult situations or running away from them does not
usually take much skill or effort. But doing so prevents you from
testing your own limits and from growing. The ability to face
difficulties can be crucial for your growth. However, if you are
faced with a situation in which the difficulties are simply
overwhelming, you should step back for the time being and
wait until you have built up enough strength to deal with it skillfully.
Joseph Goldstein
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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
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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
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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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Tribulation
will not hurt you,
unless as it too often does,
it hardens you and makes you
sour, narrow and skeptical.
Edwin
Hubbell Chapman
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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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There
is never really anything to be discouraged about, because
difficulties are opportunities for inner growth, and the greater
the difficulty, the greater the opportunity for growth.
Peace Pilgrim |
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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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The most beautiful people we have known are those who
have known
defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found
their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a
sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with
compassion,
gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just
happen.
Elisabeth Kuebler-Ross |
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And
once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it
through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure,
whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When
you
come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who
walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.
Haruki Murakami |
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You may
encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact,
it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you
are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.
Maya Angelou |
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Adversity
is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back
from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but
the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as
we really are, and not merely as we might like to be.
Arthur Golden
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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
The Works of Anne Bradstreet |
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Bad times have a
scientific value.
These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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It
appears that when life is broken by
tragedy God shines through the
breach.
George
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Never
forget that God tests
his real friends
more severely
than the lukewarm ones.
Kathryn
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Although I do not wish hardship on myself, hardship often finds me, and when it does, I have a choice.
I can treat it as a purely negative experience—one that I should put behind me as soon as possible and never think of again—or I can actively seek to identify and understand the lesson that every hardship contains within it.
For example, through hardship I can learn about humbleness (gaining a better understanding of my limitations), empathy (learning to connect to the pain of others), patience (absorbing the lesson that things do not always turn out as we planned), and resilience (gaining confidence from my ability to bounce back after the hardship is overcome).
I most certainly do not have to be happy about everything that is thrown my way, and yet once something negative happens to me, I can use it as a tool for development and growth.
Things do not necessarily happen for the best, but I can choose to make the best of things that happen.
Tal Ben-Shahar
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Times
of confusion and general adversity have always been a
source of great good. Real calamity was ordained as a person's
perfect mirror, that we may see ourselves and see how helpless
we are without the support of a Supreme Being.
Fred van Amburgh |
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