Adversity

(88 votes)   How can something bother you if you won't let it?

Anonymous

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(88 votes)   If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.

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(88 votes)   No man ought to lay a cross upon himself, or to adopt tribulation, as is done in popedom; but if a cross or tribulation come upon him, then let him suffer it patiently, and know that it is good and profitable for him.

Martin Luther

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(87 votes)   Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

Robert C. Gallagher

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(87 votes)   You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.

Virgil
c. 70 - 19 BC, Roman Poet

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(86 votes)   It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Taylor Benson

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(86 votes)   Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Italian Proverbs
Sayings of Italian Origin

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(86 votes)   The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Charles M. Schwab
1862-1939, American Industrialist, Businessman

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(86 votes)   To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Jean Jacques Rousseau
1712-1778, Swiss Political Philosopher, Educationist, Essayist

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(85 votes)   God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.

George Macdonald
1824-1905, Scottish Novelist

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(85 votes)   Notice the painful lashes upon your shoulders, done so solely by the crop attached to your belt.

Greg Evans
American Writer 1978-

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(85 votes)   The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.

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(84 votes)   Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author

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(84 votes)   Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

The Talmud
BC 500?-400? AD, Jewish Archive of Oral Tradition

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(83 votes)   Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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