Adversity

(61 votes)   No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

Source Unknown

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(61 votes)   Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

M Kathleen Casey

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(61 votes)   Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Dorothy L. Sayers
1893-1957, British Author

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(61 votes)   Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X
1925-1965, American Black Leader, Activist

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(60 votes)   A time of disarray is also a moment of opportunity.

Frederick Ferre

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(60 votes)   If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

George Sheehan

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(59 votes)   If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

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(59 votes)   In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.

George Leonard

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(59 votes)   They that sow in tears shall reap joy. [Psalms 126:5]

Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

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(58 votes)   Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.

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(58 votes)   Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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(57 votes)   Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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(56 votes)   In great straits and when hope is small, the boldest counsels are the safest.

Titus Livius

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(55 votes)   Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(55 votes)   Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head; And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Find tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, And good in everything.

William Shakespeare

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