Author Topic: ~ Adversity Quotes ~  (Read 20428 times)

Offline MysteRy

Re: ~ Adversity Quotes ~
« Reply #120 on: January 22, 2016, 05:38:50 PM »
[highlight-text]I really don't deserve this but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.

Jack Benny

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #121 on: January 22, 2016, 05:40:34 PM »
[highlight-text]Adversity leads us to think properly of our state and so is most beneficial to us.

Samuel Johnson
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Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #122 on: January 22, 2016, 05:41:50 PM »
[highlight-text]It is from the level of calamities ... that we learn impressive and useful lessons.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #123 on: January 22, 2016, 05:43:10 PM »
[highlight-text]In the depths of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

Albert Camus

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #124 on: January 22, 2016, 05:46:39 PM »
[highlight-text]You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

George Bernard Shaw

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #125 on: January 22, 2016, 05:47:39 PM »
[highlight-text]Remember that the Devil doesn't sleep but seeks our ruin in a thousand different ways

Angela Merici

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #126 on: January 22, 2016, 05:48:33 PM »
[highlight-text]I thank God for my handicaps for through them I have found myself my work and my God.

Helen Keller

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #127 on: January 22, 2016, 05:51:35 PM »
[highlight-text]Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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« Reply #128 on: January 22, 2016, 05:54:28 PM »
[highlight-text]The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

Sophocles

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #129 on: January 22, 2016, 05:55:09 PM »
[highlight-text]It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.

Teresa of Avila

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« Reply #130 on: January 22, 2016, 05:56:16 PM »
[highlight-text]Man cannot remake himself without suffering for he is both the marble and the sculptor.

Dr. Alexis Carrel

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #131 on: January 22, 2016, 07:00:09 PM »
[highlight-text]A woman is like a tea bag: you never know her strength until you drop her in hot water.

Nancy Reagan

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« Reply #132 on: January 22, 2016, 07:00:46 PM »
[highlight-text]People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #133 on: January 22, 2016, 07:01:26 PM »
[highlight-text]Our trials are tests; our sorrows pave the way for a fuller life when we have earned it.

Jerome P. Fleishman

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« Reply #134 on: January 22, 2016, 07:01:56 PM »
[highlight-text]It is often hard to distinguish between the hard knocks in life and those of opportunity.

Frederick Phillips