#adversity

...the sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#god #trials #trials

They looked to each other for support, for strength, and at times, motivation, to remember why and for whom they lived. ↗

— Sage Steadman

#family #life #love #motivation #strength-through-adversity

Memories of the past year came tumbling down on me. The recent changes and reverses were almost overwhelming. I was learning that life flowed like a river. When the run-off was normal, the water ran smoothly. But if there came a downpour, it gushed. In the likeness to a flooding river, life events were caught up in the course of the devouring stream. ↗

— Mary Margaret Jensen

#life #trials #change

My storehouse having burnt down, nothing obscures my view of the bright moon. ↗

— Japanes Haiku

#inspirational #inspirational

Don't make a permanent solution to a temporary situation. ↗

— Unknown

#inspirational #suicide #truth #inspirational

Through the trials and tribulations of life come the openness to receive greatness. ↗

— Michelle Cruz-Rosado

#opportunity #overcoming-adversity #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

Those who kept their sanity and humanity intact in the face of awful adversity. Heroes named and unnamed, some known only to God. ↗

— Silvia Cartwright

#awful #face #god #heroes #humanity

Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age. ↗

— Aristotle

#education #learning #old-age #prosperity #age