Quotes about Adversity

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

They've all been through bad things. So bad things happen to people. They happen to all the great men of God.

Is it not hard that even those who are with us should be against us - that a man's enemies, in some degree, should be those of the same household of faith? Yet so it is.

Birds sing after a storm why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them.

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.

Do the things external which fall upon thee distract thee? Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.

So remember this principle when something threatens to cause you pain: the thing itself was no misfortune at all; to endure it and prevail is great good fortune.

Why doth a little thing said or done against thee make thee sorry? It is no new thing; it is not the first, nor shall it be the last, if thou live long. At best suffer patiently, if thou canst not suffer joyously.

Everything that happens is either endurable or not. If it's endurable, then endure it. Stop complaining. If it's unendurable Ãƒ¢Ã¢'¬Ã‚¦ then stop complaining. Your destruction will mean its end as well. Just remember: you can endure anything your mind can make endurable, by treating it as in your interest to do so. In your interest, or in your nature. 4.

Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear.

Nothing befalls anything which that thing is not naturally made to bear. The same experience befalls another, and he is unruffled and remains unharmed; either because he is unaware that it has happened or because he exhibits greatness of soul. Is it not strange that ignorance and complaisance are stronger than wisdom...?