Adversity

(124 votes)   If you want to forget all your other troubles, wear too tight shoes.

Unknown

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(122 votes)   Common and vulgar people ascribe all ills that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; people of much wisdom, to no one.

Epictetus

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(122 votes)   It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist

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(116 votes)   Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Ann Landers
1918-, American Advice Columnist

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(108 votes)   Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage.

William Ellery Channing

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(106 votes)   The drowning man is not troubled by rain.

Persian Proverb

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(104 votes)   Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

William James
1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author

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(104 votes)   I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.

Jewish proverb

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(103 votes)   A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Chinese Proverbs
Sayings of Chinese Origin

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(100 votes)   I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

Anne Frank
1929-1945, German Jewish Refugee, Diarist

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(97 votes)   Any port in a storm.

Scottish Proverbs
Sayings of Scottish Origin

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(93 votes)   If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot's at the other end.

Bert Whitney

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(93 votes)   If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.

Source Unknown

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(90 votes)   They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Dorothy Parker
1893-1967, American Humorous Writer

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(90 votes)   When written in Chinese the word crisis is composed of two characters - one represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

John F. Kennedy

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