Adversity Quotes - Page 18

• Turn your wounds into wisdom.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Oprah Winfrey (2017). “The Wisdom of Sundays: Life-Changing Insights and Inspirational Conversations”, p.120, Pan Macmillan

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• Avoiding problems you need to face is avoiding the life you need to live.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Mar 12, 2014

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• Of course you'll encounter trouble. But behold a God of power who can take any evil and turn it into a door of hope.

  Catherine Marshall

  Inspirational, Encouraging, God

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• In the dark times, if you have something to hold on to, which is yourself, you'll survive.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Uplifting

  "Happy 60th Birthday, Whoopi Goldberg! Our Favorite Quotes From The Actress" by Jeryl Brunner, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 14, 2015.

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• Nobody can see the trouble I see, nobody knows my sorrow.

  Soe Hok Gie

  Sorrow, Trouble, Indonesia

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• You begin your journey not knowing where it will take you. You have plans, you have dreams, but every now and again you have to take uncharted roads, face impassable mountains, cross treacherous rivers, be blocked by landslides and earthquakes. That's the way my life has been.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Dream, Journey, Earthquakes

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• Every path hath a puddle.

  George Herbert

  Puddles, Path

  George Herbert (1836). “The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].”, p.148

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• I love those who can smile in trouble.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Strength, Smile

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• Protect your vision. Prevail over adversity. Persevere in the midst of turmoil. Passionately act upon your convictions. Purposely walk into the day.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Vision, Happy Day, Persevere

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• In adversity be spirited and firm, and with equal prudence lessen your sail when filled with a too fortunate gale of prosperity.

  Horace

  Gale, Prosperity, Sail

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• Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational, Sports, Cheer

  Twitter post from Dec 28, 2011

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• Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and comfort, but if we were to close the doors upon sorrow and distress, we might be excluding our greatest friends and benefactors. Suffering can make saints of people as they learn patience, long-suffering, and self-mastery.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Pain, Doors, Self

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• The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

  Bernard Baruch

  Encouraging, Meaningful, Courage

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• When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars.

  Robert Breault

  Inspirational, Life, Moving On

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• Diseases can be our spiritual flat tires - disruptions in our lives that seem to be disasters at the time but end by redirecting our lives in a meaningful way.

  Bernie Siegel

  Meaningful, Spiritual, Disease

  "Peace, Love and Healing: Bodymind Communication & the Path to Self-Healing: An Exploration". Book by Bernie Siegel, 1989.

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• It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

  Garrison Keillor

  Inspirational, Life, Shallow Person

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• Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?

  Rose Kennedy

  Bird, Singing, Storm

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• Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

  Marcel Proust

  Happiness, Sympathy, Depression

  A la recherche du temps perdu: Le Temps retrouve Vol. 2, Ch. 3

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• To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.15, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Inspirational, Crazy, Struggle

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• Problems are messages.

  Shakti Gawain

  Hard Times, Messages, Problem

  Shakti Gawain (2011). “Living in the Light: Follow Your Inner Guidance to Create a New Life and a New World”, p.57, New World Library

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• Despair is anger with no place to go.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Despair, Places To Go, Problem

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.91, BookBaby

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• Into every life there come the painful, despairing days of adversity.

  James E. Faust

  Painful, Refiner's Fire

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• Suffering can make saints of people as they learn patience, long-suffering and self-mastery.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Self, Long, People

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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• In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.

  Jonathan Swift

  Ease, Firsts, Bent

  'Verses on the Death of Dr Swift' (1731) l. 7

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