#adversity

Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

#compassion #connectedness #help #oneness #trouble

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#head #his #jewel #like #precious

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. ↗

— King Solomon

#born #brother #friend #loveth #times

Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless. ↗

— Scott Hamilton

#give #perseverance #priceless #self-esteem #shape

Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit. ↗

— Napolean Hill

#benefit #carries #equivalent #every #failure

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

#adversity #always #anger #busy #energy

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted adversity. ↗

— Sa'Di

#insensible #man #prosperity #relish #tasted

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#brave #brave men #brave soldiers #just #men

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends. ↗

— Plutarch

#balance #friends #just #only #prosperity

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity. ↗

— Plutarch

#direct #easily #harder #man #managed