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The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirt of resistance to it. -Jean Nicolas Grou

The deeper sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can absorb. -Jan Coleman

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved. -Helen Keller

As a progressive and evolving being, man is where he is that he may learn that he may grow; and as he learns the spiritual lesson which any circumstance contains for him, it passes away and gives place to other circumstances. -James Allen

Just as so many rivers, so many showers of rain from above, so many medicinal springs do not alter the taste of the sea, so the pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. For it maintains its balance, and over all that happens it throws its own complexion, because it is more powerful than external circumstances. -Seneca

Worry is prayer for something you don't want. -James Mitchell Miller

It may be most helpful if you assume there will be extra-difficult times and prepare in advance... Then, when you hit a rough period, you will be in a better position to make a choice. And you are almost certain to hit such rough periods. Modern life (perhaps all life) is complex and unpredictable. The best laid plans of mice and men often fail at the last moment. Life is often difficult, uncertain, and painful. -Lawrence LeShan, Ph.D.

All rising to great place is by a winding stair. -Sir Francis Bacon

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity. -Lou Holtz

So many people complain that life is unfair, but that very fact proves just how fair it can be. Life doesn't discriminate. Everyone's life contains difficulties. -Bernie Siegel, MD

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step in overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. -William James

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It's not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it. -John Galsworthy

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

We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided. -Alexander Hamilton

How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself -- so always think positively. -Norman Vincent Peale

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. -Aristotle

Should you shield the valleys from the windstorms, you would never see the beauty of their canyons. -Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper. -Aristotle

Life is a grindstone. But whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us. -L. Thomas Holdcroft

This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble. -Ludwig van Beethoven

Patience and fortitude conquer all things. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. -Helen Keller

Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even. -Horace

Life is a series of problems. Do we want to moan about them or solve them? -M. Scott Peck

Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong. -Norman Vincent Peale

The question in life is not whether you get knocked down. You will. The question is, are you ready to get back up... And fight for what you believe in? -Dan Quayle

I learn by going where I have to go. -Theodore Roethke

Per ardua ad astra. -Motto of the RAF

The journey of life is not paved in blacktop; it is not brightly lit, and it has no road signs. It is a rocky path through the wilderness. -M. Scott Peck

If there is a purpose in life at all, there must be a purpose in suffering and in dying. But no man can tell another what this purpose is. Each must find out for himself, and must accept the responsibility that his answer prescribes. If he succeeds he will continue to grow in spite of all indignities. -Gordon W. Allport

...the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. -Thomas Paine

 

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