Quotes About Adversity

A couple of back operations didn't cure anything, but instead, things got worse and worse and worse.

Through all the hardships and all the operations and all the hospitals, all that stuff each part of my life, there's been some goodness, some greatness that comes in here and helps me to be strong, to continue what I'm doing.

I've had an operation on my knee, two operations on my hand, injuries on elbows and stuff but you get through it.

Todos estamos en el fango, pero algunos miramos las estrellas

And now, dear Mr. Worthing, I will not intrude any longer into a house of sorrow. I would merely beg you not to be too much bowed down by grief. What seem to us bitter trials are often blessings in disguise. This seems to me a blessing of an extremely obvious kind.

Most personalities have been obliged to be rebels. Half their strength has been wasted in friction.

It is only when one has lost all things, that one knows that one possesses it

Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.

One cannot always keep an adder in one's breast to feed one, nor rise up every night to sow thorns in the garden of one's soul.

The life that was to make his soul would mar his body.

we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly.

Chaque fois qu'on produit un effet, on se donne un ennemi. Il faut rester médiocre pour être populaire.

Yet ruled he not long, so great had been his suffering, and so bitter the fire of his testing, for after the space of three years he died. And he who came after him ruled evilly.

There is much more before me. I have hills far steeper to climb, valleys much darker to pass through. And I have to get it all out of myself. Neither religion, morality, nor reason can help me at all.

Life is never fair, Robert. And perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

But neither milk-white rose nor red May bloom in prison air; The shard, the pebble, and the flint, Are what they give us there: For flowers have been known to heal A common man's despair.

I would merely beg you not to be too much bowed down by grief. What seem to us bitter trails are often blessings in disguise.

Shall Joy wear what Grief has fashioned?

MRS ARBUTHNOT For me the world is shriveled to a palm's breath, and where I walk there are thorns. HESTER It shall not be so. We shall somewhere find green valleys and fresh waters, and if we weep, well, we shall weep together.

They have been through the fire, and what fire does not destroy, it hardens. She has had experiences.

All trials are trials for one's life.

People used to say of me that I was too individualistic. I must be far more of an individualist than ever I was. I must get far more out of myself than ever I got, and ask far less of the world than ever I asked. Indeed, my ruin came not from too great individualism of life, but from too little. The one disgraceful, unpardonable, and to all time contemptible action of my life was to allow myself to appeal to society for help and protection.

What fire does not destroy, it hardens.

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