Famous adversity quotations

   He who has a why to live can bear almost any how
 ~ by Friedrich Nietzsche

   There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
 ~ by Washington Irving, The Sketch Book, 1820

Inspirational Sayings, Motivational Quotes, Wise Words, Witty Proverbs
   There is no education like adversity
 ~ by Disraeli

   I have woven a parachute out of everything broken
 ~ by William Stafford

   Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.... [A]ccept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields....
 ~ by Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet, 1923

   Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars
 ~ by Violeta Parra

   There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.
 ~ by Lou Reed, Magic and Loss

   Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning
 ~ by Bill Gates, Business @ the Speed of Thought

   It just wouldn't be a picnic without the ants
 ~ by Author Unknown

   We acquire the strength we have overcome
 ~ by Ralph Waldo Emerson

   Happiness is beneficial for the body but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
 ~ by Marcel Proust, The Past Recaptured, Remembrance of Things Past

   Problems are messages
 ~ by Shakti Gawain

   When you're feeling your worst, that's when you get to know yourself the best
 ~ by Leslie Grossman

   If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.
 ~ by Frank A. Clark

   It is always in the midst, in the epicenter, of your troubles that you find serenity
 ~ by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wartime Writings 1939-1944, translated from French by Norah Purcell

   God gave burdens, also shoulders
 ~ by Yiddish Proverb

   If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problemEverything else is inconvenience
 ~ by Robert Fulghum

   There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever natureA scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with
 ~ by Harry Crews

   The misfortunes of mankind are of varied plumage.
 ~ by Aeschylus, The Suppliant Maidens

   It is better to drink of deep griefs than to taste shallow pleasures.
 ~ by William Hazlitt, Characteristics, 1823

   Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
 ~ by Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Orthodoxy, 1909

   If you're going through hell, keep going.
 ~ by Winston Churchill

   Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known
 ~ by Garrison Keillor

   Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom
 ~ by Coventry Patmore

   If the thunder is not loud, the peasant forgets to cross himself
 ~ by Russian Proverb



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