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It is better to drink of deep griefs than to taste shallow pleasures.
Category: Adversity Author: William Hazlitt Source: Characteristics
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Better bread with water than cake with trouble.
Category: Adversity Source: Russian Proverb
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Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.
Category: Adversity Author: Hugh Miller Source: Snow on the Wind
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The darkest hour has only sixty minutes.
Category: Adversity Author: Morris Mandel
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God gave burdens, also shoulders.
Category: Adversity Source: Yiddish Proverb
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But ah! disasters have their use;
And life might e'en be too sun-shiny.
Category: Adversity Author: Charles Stuart Calverley
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There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.
Category: Adversity Author: Harry Crews
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When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.
Category: Adversity Author: Mignon McLaughlin Source: The Neurotics Notebook
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Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.
Category: Adversity Author: William Faulkner
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We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
Category: Adversity Author: Winston Churchill
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It is always in the midst, in the epicenter, of your troubles that you find serenity.
Category: Adversity Author: Antoine de Saint
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Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.
Category: Adversity Author: Jean Anouilh Source: Antigone
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My strength is made perfect in weakness.
Category: Adversity
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Problems are the price you pay for progress.
Category: Adversity Author: Branch Rickey
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When you're feeling your worst, that's when you get to know yourself the best.
Category: Adversity Author: Leslie Grossman
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Happiness is beneficial for the body but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
Category: Adversity Author: Marcel Proust
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Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
Category: Adversity Author: Bill Gates
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Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good.
Category: Adversity Author: Lucy Larcom
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If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
Category: Adversity Author: Socrates
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Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war.
Category: Adversity Author: Homer Source: Iliad
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