#adversity

We live in a day when the adversary stresses on every hand the philosophy of instant gratification. We seem to demand instant everything, including instant solutions to our problems. . .It was meant to be that life would be a challenge. To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal. ↗

— Boyd K. Packer

#life

Men do not stumble over mountains, but over molehills. ↗

— Confucius

#men

I’ve learned that everything happens for a reason,” the yogi Krishnan told him. “Every event has a why and all adversity teaches us a lesson... Never regret your past. Accept it as the teacher that it is. ↗

— Robin S. Sharma

#growth #teacher

Sometimes things have to go wrong in order to go right. ↗

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

#right

Never to suffer would never to have been blessed. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#contrast #suffering

Affliction is a good man's shining time. ↗

— Edward Young

#character #hard-times #perseverance #trials #perseverance

Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no sun, and water only when it rains. It's growing out of sour earth. And it's strong because its hard struggle to live is making it strong. My children will be strong that way. ↗

— Betty Smith

#strength #strength-through-adversity #survival #survival

Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity. ↗

— Charles H. Spurgeon

#adversity

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

— William Shakespeare

#shakespeare #adversity

The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived. ↗

— Robert Jordan

#resilience #strength #adversity