Adversity

(54 votes)   If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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(53 votes)   Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Sir Walter Scott
1771-1832, British Novelist, Poet

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(53 votes)   To be unable to bear an ill is itself a great ill.

Bion

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(53 votes)   When you're feeling your worst, that's when you get to know yourself the best.

Leslie Grossman

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(52 votes)   Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

Robert Leighton
1611-1684, British Clergyman

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(52 votes)   If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater the effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders -- what would you tell him to do? I don't know. What could he do? What would you tell him? To shrug.

Francisco D'Anconia

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(52 votes)   Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches

Simone Weil
1910-1943, French Philosopher, Mystic

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(52 votes)   We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't.

Frank A. Clark

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(52 votes)   What is to give light must endure the burning.

Viktor E. Frankl
1905-, Austrian Psychiatrist, Neurology, Writer, ''Man's Search for Meaning''

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(51 votes)   A bend in the road is not the end of the road... unless you fail to make the turn.

Unknown

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(51 votes)   Adversity breaks the inferior man's will but only bends the superior man's spirit. Outward influence is denied the great man, who accordingly uses words sparingly but retains his central position.

I Ching

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(51 votes)   The proof of gold is fire...

Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(51 votes)   We acquire the strength we have overcome.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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(50 votes)   Adversity borrows its sharpest sting from our impatience.

Bishop Horne

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(50 votes)   Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]

Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

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