56 quotes found
“Glee! The great storm is over!”
“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.”
“To say that my grief will be eternal would be ridiculous - nothing is eternal.”
“Our way is not soft grass it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards forward toward the sun.”
“Until you've lost your reputation you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.”
“Failure is in a sense the highway to success inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true and very fresh experience points out some form of error w...”
“Although the world is full of suffering it is also full of the overcoming of it.”
“It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement convinced that their cause is lost it is only then that cause triumphs.”
“When you can't remember why you're hurt that's when you're healed. When you have to work real hard to re-create the pain and you can't quite get there that's when you're better.”
“I walk firmer and more secure up hill than down.”
“Adversity is like the period of the rain ... cold comfortless unfriendly to man and to animal yet from that season have their birth the flower the fruit the date the rose and the pomegranate.”
“If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.”
“The virtue of adversity is fortitude which in mortals is the heroical virtue.”
“To turn an obstacle to one's advantage is a great step towards victory.”
“Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards they simply unveil them to the eyes of men ... crisis shows us what we have become.”
“But the fruit that can fall without shaking indeed is too mellow for me.”
“In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhap-piness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?”
“There is no victory without pain.”
“Excellence costs a great deal.”
“Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.”
