Author Topic: ~ Adversity Quotes ~  (Read 19750 times)

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #180 on: January 23, 2016, 05:59:40 PM »
[highlight-text]Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into darkness.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

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« Reply #181 on: January 23, 2016, 06:00:18 PM »
[highlight-text]The block of granite which was an obstacle in the path of the weak becomes a stepping stone in the path of the strong.

Thomas Carlyle

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« Reply #182 on: January 23, 2016, 06:02:42 PM »
[highlight-text]It is the north wind that lashes men into Vikings; it is the soft luscious south wind which lulls them to lotus dreams.

Ouida

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« Reply #183 on: January 23, 2016, 06:03:55 PM »
[highlight-text]Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses it would still be just to deem it good for something.

Jean de la Fontaine

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« Reply #184 on: January 23, 2016, 07:00:43 PM »
[highlight-text]It is somehow reassuring to discover that the word 'travel' is derived from 'travail ' denoting the pains of childbirth.

Jessica Mitford

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« Reply #185 on: January 23, 2016, 07:03:20 PM »
[highlight-text]The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow.

William J. H. Boetcker

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« Reply #186 on: January 23, 2016, 07:04:25 PM »
[highlight-text]Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

William Hazlitt

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« Reply #187 on: January 23, 2016, 07:05:09 PM »
[highlight-text]Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems ... create our courage and wisdom.

M. Scott Peck

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« Reply #188 on: January 23, 2016, 07:05:55 PM »
[highlight-text]I have always grown from my problems and challenges from the things that don't work out. That's when I've really learned.

Carol Burnett

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« Reply #189 on: January 23, 2016, 07:06:54 PM »
[highlight-text]The good things that belong to prosperity are to be wished but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

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« Reply #190 on: January 23, 2016, 07:08:17 PM »
[highlight-text]I think hearts are very much like glasses - if they do not break with the first ring they usually last a considerable time.

L. E. Landon

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« Reply #191 on: January 23, 2016, 07:09:52 PM »
[highlight-text]Every experience however bitter has its lesson and to focus one's attention on the lesson helps one overcome the bitterness.

Edward Howard Griggs

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« Reply #192 on: January 23, 2016, 07:10:32 PM »
[highlight-text](Adversity is) the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself being especially free from admirers then.

Samuel Johnson

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« Reply #193 on: January 23, 2016, 07:11:04 PM »
[highlight-text]Be willing to have it so; acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

William James

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« Reply #194 on: January 23, 2016, 07:11:57 PM »
[highlight-text]Everybody's heart is open you know when they have recently escaped from severe pain or are recovering the blessing of health.

Jane Austen