Adversity

(46 votes)   A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

Edward Noyes Westcott
1847-1898, American Author

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(46 votes)   Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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(46 votes)   There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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(46 votes)   When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Lee Salk

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(46 votes)   You can't run away from trouble. There ain't no place that far.

Uncle Remus

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(45 votes)   Count the garden by the flowers, never by the leaves that fall. Count your life with smiles and not the tears that roll.

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(45 votes)   Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

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(45 votes)   Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

H.G. Wells
1866-1946, British-born American Author

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(45 votes)   If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

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(45 votes)   If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.

Mary Engelbreit

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(45 votes)   We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them.

Charles C. West

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(44 votes)   A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

John Neal

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(44 votes)   If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

Henry David Thoreau

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(44 votes)   There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth.

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(43 votes)   And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

Jerry Chin

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