Adversity

(50 votes)   Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Carl Zwanzig

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(50 votes)   Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

M. Kathleen Casey

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(49 votes)   Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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(49 votes)   By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(49 votes)   Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Norman Vincent Peale
1898-1993, American Christian Reformed Pastor, Speaker, Author

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(49 votes)   Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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(49 votes)   Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Robert H. Schuller
1926-, American Minister (Crystal Cathedral), Author, Social Leader

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(48 votes)   Diseases can be our spiritual flat tires - disruptions in our lives that seem to be disasters at the time but end by redirecting our lives in a meaningful way.

Bernie S. Siegel

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(48 votes)   Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars.

Violeta Parra

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(48 votes)   The best way out of a difficulty is through it.

Anonymous

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(48 votes)   The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.

John Vance Cheney

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(48 votes)   There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

Michel de Montaigne

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(47 votes)   In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Danny Devito
1944-, American Actor, Comedian

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(47 votes)   The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Phil Weltman
American Business Executive, William Morris Agency

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(47 votes)   When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful.

Barbara Bloom

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