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“Every time you meet a situation though you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the torture of the damned once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever a...”
“I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief struggle and flashes of vision which enlighten.”
“I have learned in the great University of Hard Knocks a philosophy that no woman who has had an easy life ever acquires. I have learned to live each day as it comes and not to borrow trouble by dr...”
“Discontent and disorder were signs of energy and hope not of despair.”
“We say: mad with joy. We should say: wise with grief.”
“There are some things you learn best in calm and some in storm.”
“Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.”
“Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.”
“Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress.”
“Noble discontent is the path to heaven.”
“No pain no palm no thorns no throne no gall no glory no cross no crown.”
“The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man perfected without trials.”
“As there is no worldly gain without some loss so there is no worldly loss without some gain.... Set the allowance against the loss and thou shalt find no loss great.”
“Never complain about your troubles they are responsible for more than half of your income.”
“Sometimes, situation may be uncomfortable but must endure.”
“Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.”
“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you ...”
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation,...”
“If you want to find out what a man is to the bottom, give him power. Any man can stand adversity — only a great man can stand prosperity. It is the glory of Abraham Lincoln that he never abused p...”
“When things do not go your way, remember that every challenge — every adversity — contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth.”
