If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on
fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.
~Robert Fulghum
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. ~M. Kathleen Casey
If you're going through hell, keep going. ~Winston Churchill
We have no right to ask when sorrow comes, "Why did this happen to me?" unless we ask the same question for every moment of happiness that comes our way. ~Author Unknown
A bend in the road is not the end of the road... unless you fail to make the turn. ~Author Unknown
The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief. ~William Shakespeare, Othello
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much. ~Mother Teresa
The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work. ~Harry Golden
We acquire the strength we have overcome. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can't run away from trouble. There ain't no place that far. ~Uncle Remus
Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits. ~Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, 1882
If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it round. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he's got an abscess on his knee or in his soul. ~Rona Barrett
Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers. ~Garth Brooks
Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known. ~Garrison Keillor
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies. ~Erich Fromm
I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. ~Jewish Proverb
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them? ~Rose F. Kennedy
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave. ~Henry Ward Beecher
If you want to forget all your other troubles, wear too tight shoes. ~The Houghton Line, November 1965
Turn your wounds into wisdom. ~Oprah Winfrey
Sometimes the littlest things in life are the hardest to take. You can sit on a mountain more comfortably than on a tack. ~Author Unknown
If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere. ~Frank A. Clark
As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times. ~Orson Scott Card
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. ~Kenji Miyazawa
Bad is never good until worse happens. ~Danish Proverb
It just wouldn't be a picnic without the ants. ~Author Unknown
You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. ~Walt Disney
Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are. ~Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful. ~Barbara Bloom
There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out. ~Lou Reed, "Magic and Loss"
We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them. ~Charles C. West
Things are never so bad they can't be made worse. ~From the movie The African Queen
If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it. ~Mary Engelbreit
The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem. ~Theodore Rubin
Every path hath a puddle. ~George Herbert, "Jacula Prudentum"
A bad grade is only one letter in the Essay of life. ~Lee Drake
I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. ~Agatha Christie
Sometimes in tragedy we find our life's purpose - the eye sheds a tear to find its focus. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering. ~Colette
Sleep, riches, and health to be truly enjoyed must be interrupted. ~Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, Flower, Fruit, and Thorn
Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. ~African Proverb
There is no education like adversity. ~Disraeli
We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't. ~Frank A. Clark
If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change. ~John A. Simone, Sr.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
When written in Chinese the word "crisis" is composed of two characters - one represents danger and the other represents opportunity. ~John F. Kennedy, address, 12 April 1959
The problem with troubleshooting is that trouble shoots back. ~Author Unknown
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. ~Michel de Montaigne
Adversity introduces a man to himself. ~Author Unknown
It's not easy taking my problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line. ~Ashleigh Brilliant
Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Night Flight, 1931, translated from French by Stuart Gilbert
That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not. ~James K. Feibleman
The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears. ~John Vance Cheney
If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. ~John Steinbeck
Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out. ~Edwin Markham
Life didn't promise to be wonderful. ~Teddy Pendergrass
Adversity is the first path to truth. ~Lord Byron
Diseases can be our spiritual flat tires - disruptions in our lives that seem to be disasters at the time but end by redirecting our lives in a meaningful way. ~Bernie S. Siegel
We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one. ~John Updike
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds. ~Norman Vincent Peale
Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel. ~Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Orthodoxy, 1909
The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter. ~Author Unknown
A problem is a chance for you to do your best. ~Duke Ellington
Suffering is above, not below. And everyone thinks that suffering is below. And everyone wants to rise. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
They say a reasonable amount 'o fleas is good fer a dog - keeps him from broodin' over bein' a dog, mebbe. ~Edward Westcott
Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating. ~O. Henry, The Gifts of the Magi
Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.... [A]ccept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields.... ~Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet, 1923
The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. ~Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own, 1929
I had a lover's quarrel with the world. ~Robert Frost, The Lesson for Today, 1942
I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress. ~André Gide
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience. ~Author Unknown
Convert difficulties into opportunities, for difficulties are divine surgeries to make you better. ~Author Unknown
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant. ~Horace
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities. ~Sophocles
Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargained for. ~Stanislaus I, Maxims
Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. ~Robert Service
Sometimes I think my life would make a great TV movie. It even has the part where they say, "Stand by. We are experiencing temporary difficulties." ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. ~Rainer Maria Rilke
Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive. ~Josephine Hart
Yes, one must suffer, even in vain, so as not to have lived in vain. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars. ~Violeta Parra
There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury. ~Alexander Smith
Despair is anger with no place to go. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's. ~Olin Miller
Problems are messages. ~Shakti Gawain
I guess if you take away the pain in life it means having no beauty to hope for. ~Daniel, @blindedpoet
There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. ~Washington Irving, The Sketch Book, 1820
For fate has wove the thread of life with pain,
And twins ev'n from the birth are Misery and Man!
~Homer, Odyssey
People are resilient. After all, every person born has recovered from nine months on life support. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered. ~Oscar Wilde
So do the Winds, and Thunders cleanse the Air:
So working Seas settle and purge the Wine;
So lop't and pruned Trees do flourish fair,
So doth the Fire the drossy Gold refine.
~John Davies, "Nosce Teipsum," 1599
Quotations about Adversity 2
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. ~M. Kathleen Casey
If you're going through hell, keep going. ~Winston Churchill
We have no right to ask when sorrow comes, "Why did this happen to me?" unless we ask the same question for every moment of happiness that comes our way. ~Author Unknown
A bend in the road is not the end of the road... unless you fail to make the turn. ~Author Unknown
The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief. ~William Shakespeare, Othello
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much. ~Mother Teresa
The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work. ~Harry Golden
We acquire the strength we have overcome. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can't run away from trouble. There ain't no place that far. ~Uncle Remus
Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits. ~Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, 1882
If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it round. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he's got an abscess on his knee or in his soul. ~Rona Barrett
Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers. ~Garth Brooks
Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known. ~Garrison Keillor
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies. ~Erich Fromm
I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. ~Jewish Proverb
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them? ~Rose F. Kennedy
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave. ~Henry Ward Beecher
If you want to forget all your other troubles, wear too tight shoes. ~The Houghton Line, November 1965
Turn your wounds into wisdom. ~Oprah Winfrey
Sometimes the littlest things in life are the hardest to take. You can sit on a mountain more comfortably than on a tack. ~Author Unknown
If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere. ~Frank A. Clark
As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times. ~Orson Scott Card
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. ~Kenji Miyazawa
Bad is never good until worse happens. ~Danish Proverb
It just wouldn't be a picnic without the ants. ~Author Unknown
You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. ~Walt Disney
Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are. ~Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful. ~Barbara Bloom
There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out. ~Lou Reed, "Magic and Loss"
We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them. ~Charles C. West
Things are never so bad they can't be made worse. ~From the movie The African Queen
If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it. ~Mary Engelbreit
The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem. ~Theodore Rubin
Every path hath a puddle. ~George Herbert, "Jacula Prudentum"
A bad grade is only one letter in the Essay of life. ~Lee Drake
I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. ~Agatha Christie
Sometimes in tragedy we find our life's purpose - the eye sheds a tear to find its focus. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering. ~Colette
Sleep, riches, and health to be truly enjoyed must be interrupted. ~Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, Flower, Fruit, and Thorn
Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. ~African Proverb
There is no education like adversity. ~Disraeli
We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't. ~Frank A. Clark
If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change. ~John A. Simone, Sr.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
When written in Chinese the word "crisis" is composed of two characters - one represents danger and the other represents opportunity. ~John F. Kennedy, address, 12 April 1959
The problem with troubleshooting is that trouble shoots back. ~Author Unknown
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. ~Michel de Montaigne
Adversity introduces a man to himself. ~Author Unknown
It's not easy taking my problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line. ~Ashleigh Brilliant
Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Night Flight, 1931, translated from French by Stuart Gilbert
That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not. ~James K. Feibleman
The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears. ~John Vance Cheney
If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. ~John Steinbeck
Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out. ~Edwin Markham
Life didn't promise to be wonderful. ~Teddy Pendergrass
Adversity is the first path to truth. ~Lord Byron
Diseases can be our spiritual flat tires - disruptions in our lives that seem to be disasters at the time but end by redirecting our lives in a meaningful way. ~Bernie S. Siegel
We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one. ~John Updike
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds. ~Norman Vincent Peale
Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel. ~Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Orthodoxy, 1909
The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter. ~Author Unknown
A problem is a chance for you to do your best. ~Duke Ellington
Suffering is above, not below. And everyone thinks that suffering is below. And everyone wants to rise. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
They say a reasonable amount 'o fleas is good fer a dog - keeps him from broodin' over bein' a dog, mebbe. ~Edward Westcott
Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating. ~O. Henry, The Gifts of the Magi
Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.... [A]ccept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields.... ~Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet, 1923
The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. ~Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own, 1929
I had a lover's quarrel with the world. ~Robert Frost, The Lesson for Today, 1942
I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress. ~André Gide
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience. ~Author Unknown
Convert difficulties into opportunities, for difficulties are divine surgeries to make you better. ~Author Unknown
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant. ~Horace
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities. ~Sophocles
Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargained for. ~Stanislaus I, Maxims
Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. ~Robert Service
Sometimes I think my life would make a great TV movie. It even has the part where they say, "Stand by. We are experiencing temporary difficulties." ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. ~Rainer Maria Rilke
Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive. ~Josephine Hart
Yes, one must suffer, even in vain, so as not to have lived in vain. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars. ~Violeta Parra
There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury. ~Alexander Smith
Despair is anger with no place to go. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's. ~Olin Miller
Problems are messages. ~Shakti Gawain
I guess if you take away the pain in life it means having no beauty to hope for. ~Daniel, @blindedpoet
There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. ~Washington Irving, The Sketch Book, 1820
For fate has wove the thread of life with pain,
And twins ev'n from the birth are Misery and Man!
~Homer, Odyssey
People are resilient. After all, every person born has recovered from nine months on life support. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered. ~Oscar Wilde
So do the Winds, and Thunders cleanse the Air:
So working Seas settle and purge the Wine;
So lop't and pruned Trees do flourish fair,
So doth the Fire the drossy Gold refine.
~John Davies, "Nosce Teipsum," 1599
Quotations about Adversity 2
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