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“They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.”
“Adversity reveals genius prosperity conceals it.”
“Never to suffer would have been never to have been blessed.”
“In the day of prosperity be joyful but in the day of adversity consider.”
“In victory even the cowardly like to boast while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.”
“It is somehow reassuring to discover that the word "travel" is derived from "travail " denoting the pains of childbirth.”
“Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man but for one man who can stand prosperity there are a hundred that will stand adversity.”
“True knowledge comes only through suffering.”
“Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into darkness.”
“There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle.”
“Hope begins in the dark the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.”
“Suffering has always been with us does it really matter in what form it comes? All that matters is how we bear it and how we fit it into our lives.”
“Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.”
“The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.”
“The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow.”
“Experience may be hard but we claim its gifts because they are real even though our feet bleed on its stones.”
“And I think that's important to know how the water's gone over the dam before you start to describe it. It helps to have been over the dam yourself.”
“I think these difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way that so many things that one goes around worrying about are of n...”
“Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble.”
“Trouble is the thing that strong men grow by. Met in the right way it is a sure-fire means of putting iron into the victim's will and making him a tougher man to down forever after.”
