Adversity

(43 votes)   Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Mario Burata

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(43 votes)   I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

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(43 votes)   In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.

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(43 votes)   The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

Theodore Rubin

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(43 votes)   We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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(42 votes)   Rock bottom is good solid ground, and a dead end street is just a place to turn around.

Buddy Buie

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(42 votes)   That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

Albert Pike
1809-1891, American Lawyer, Masonic Author, Historian

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(42 votes)   The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter.

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(42 votes)   There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

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(42 votes)   Things were bad but now they are OK.

Harold J. Seymour

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(42 votes)   Two frogs fell into a bowl of cream. One didn't panic, he relaxed and drowned. The other kicked and struggled so much that the cream turned to butter and he walked out.

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(42 votes)   What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Kitty O'neill Collins

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(42 votes)   When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.

Oswald Chambers
1874-1917 Scottish Preacher, Author

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(42 votes)   You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Walt Schmidt

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(42 votes)   Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.

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