#adversity

However mean your life is, meet it and live it. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#hard-times #inspiration #life #inspirational

Our triumph over sorrow is not that we can avoid it but that we can endure it. And therein lies our hope; that in spirit we might become bigger than the problems we face. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#hope #forgiveness

Spending time looking for what is missing in your life is futile; if you fail to look within yourself. When we challenge everything we believe we are, we reveal that which we never knew about our own selves. ↗

— Nicolas G. Janovsky

#inspirational #introspection #politics #self-discovery #strength-through-adversity

Given the ease with which health infuses life with meaning and purpose, it is shocking how swiftly illness steals away those certainties…Time unused and only endured still vanishes, as if time itself is starving, and each day is swallowed whole, leaving no crumbs, no memory, no trace at all. ↗

— Elisabeth Tova Bailey

#illness #inspirational #life #life-changing #meaning

by indignities men come to dignities ↗

— Francis Bacon

#men

We Americans have many grave problems to solve, many threatening evils to fight, and many deeds to do, if, as we hope and believe, we have the wisdom, the strength, and the courage and the virtue to do them. But we must face facts as they are. We must neither surrender ourselves to a foolish optimism, nor succumb to a timid and ignoble pessimism. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#balance #courage #courage

Quests always have their ups and downs,' rumbled the giant. 'The point is never to give up, even if you're falling off a cliff. You never know what might happen on the way to the bottom. ↗

— Nancy Farmer

#strength-through-adversity #courage

When in doubt, throw doubt out and have a little faith.... ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#courage #doubt #doubts #faith #mustard-seed

Prophet,' he said, 'Your doctrines I do not know; therefore if I accepted them, I would do it out of fear like a coward and a base man. Are you anxious that your faith be professed by cowards and base people? ↗

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

#courage #faith #strength #strength-and-courage #strength-through-adversity

Live real strong in union with Christ". ~R. Alan Woods [2013] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#strength-and-courage #strength-of-character #strength-through-adversity #courage