~ Adversity Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief struggle and flashes of vision which enlighten.

Margaret Anderson

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[highlight-text]Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man but for one man who can stand prosperity there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

Thomas Carlyle

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[highlight-text]A great man does not lose his self-possession when he is afflicted; the ocean is not made muddy by the falling in of its banks.

Panchatantra

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[highlight-text]Men habitually use only a small part of the powers which they possess and which they might use under appropriate circumstances.

William James

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[highlight-text]A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go through the white heat of the furnace to become porcelain.

Mildred W. Struven

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[highlight-text]Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

James Baldwin

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[highlight-text]At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.

Ellen Key

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[highlight-text]When one's own problems are unsolvable and all best efforts are frustrated it is lifesaving to listen to other people's problems.

Suzanne Massie

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[highlight-text]Adversity has ever been considered as the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself being free from flatterers.

Samuel Johnson

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[highlight-text]The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities my capacities.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

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[highlight-text]Without the burden of afflictions it is impossible to reach the height of grace. The gift of grace increases as the struggles increase.

Saint Rose of Lima

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[highlight-text]The world is a wheel always turning philosophized Mrs. Pelz. 'Those who were high go down low and those who've been low go up higher.'

Anzia Yezierska

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[highlight-text]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

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[highlight-text]The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.

Teresa of Avila

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[highlight-text]There is often in people to whom 'the worst' has happened an almost transcendent freedom for they have faced 'the worst' and survived it.

Carol Pearson