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There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.
Category: Adversity Author: Woody Hayes
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It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
Category: Adversity Author: Cicero
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Category: Adversity Author: Truman Capote
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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.
Category: Adversity Author: Martin Luther
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Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower.
Category: Adversity Author: Jean Paul Richter
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Having is not so pleasing a thing as wanting, it may not be logical but it is often true.
Category: Adversity Author: Mr Spock Source: Star Trek
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I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.
Category: Adversity Author: William Stafford
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I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind.
Some come from ahead and some come from behind.
But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see.
Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!
Category: Adversity Author: Dr Seuss
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The misfortunes of mankind are of varied plumage.
Category: Adversity Author: Aeschylus
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Category: Adversity Author: Bertrand Russell
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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
Category: Adversity Author: James Russell Lowell
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Bygone troubles are good to tell.
Category: Adversity Source: Yiddish Proverb
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The cold is a good counselor, but it is cold.
Category: Adversity Author: Antonio Porchia
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Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
Category: Adversity Author: Winston Churchill
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Rock bottom is good solid ground, and a dead end street is just a place to turn around.
Category: Adversity Author: Buddy Buie and JR Cobb
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If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
Category: Adversity Source: Latin Proverb
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We look before and after,
And pine for what is not;
Our sincerest laughter
With some pain is fraught;
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Category: Adversity Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley Source: Ode to a Sky Lark
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In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
Category: Adversity Author: Oscar Wilde
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Count the garden by the flowers, never by the leaves that fall. Count your life with smiles and not the tears that roll.
Category: Adversity Author: Author Unknown
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Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.
Category: Adversity Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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