#adversity

Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance. ↗

— Abigail Adams

#inspirational #inspirational

Life is at its best when everything has fallen out of place, and you decide that you're going to fight to get them right, not when everything is going your way and everyone is praising you. ↗

— Thisuri Wanniarachchi

#happiness #hard-times #inspirational #life #inspirational

In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends. ↗

— John Churton Collins

#friends #know #our #prosperity #us

I am thankful when I am hungry because then I know that when I eat, the food will taste better. Life has taught me that my true contentment rests in hope, and the pleasure itself is secondary. It is self-awareness, not happiness, that maintains peace. ↗

— Criss Jami

#content #contentment #eating #enjoyment #faith

I think really what I'm saying is that I thrive on adversity. ↗

— Richard Marx

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

— Rosalind Russell

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The most beautiful people I've known are those who have known trials, have known struggles, have known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. ↗

— Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

#beautiful #loss #people #strong #struggles

Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day; imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it. ↗

— Henry James

#life #perseverance #struggle #beauty

I have wondered why it is that our greatest triumphs spring from our greatest extremity and adversity. Perhaps it is because we are so resistant to change, we only move when our seat becomes too hot to occupy. ↗

— Richard Paul Evans

#change #life #change

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