Quotes about Adversity

In fact, our most difficult experiences become the crucibles that forge our character and develop the internal powers, the freedom to handle difficult circumstances in the future and to inspire others to do so as well.

It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us. Of course, things can hurt us physically or economically

It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts

Lessons often come dressed up as detours and roadblocks

Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven?

From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.

That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life - that is what is abnormal.

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

The gods in bounty work up storms about us, that give mankind occasion to exert their hidden strength and throw out into practice virtues that shun the day, and lie concealed in the smooth seasons and the calms of life.