Adversity

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character give him power.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character give him power.

Abraham Lincoln

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.

A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

Charles Dickens

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.

Jean Paul Richter

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.

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.

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

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

Marcus Aurelius

I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

Charles Dickens

I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

Charles Dickens

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein

Even the best horse may stumble.

Even the best horse may stumble.

Norwegian proverbs

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

Winston Churchill

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.

In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.