Quotes About Adversity

No one can know what happiness is if you have not gone through the disappointmentOne can only savor the victory if he has felt the bitter defeat.

Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.

Affliction strengthens the vigor of our soul, whereas happiness weakens it.

The key to happiness - as any good fairy godmother will tell you - is not to avoid problems, but to overcome them.

If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

I have loved, cried, been mad with happiness. I have won and I have lost.

Only a true weakling is capable of true courage.

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are.

The trick is to find happiness in the brief gaps between disasters.

Every happiness is the child of a separation it did not think it could survive.

Even in Siberia there is happiness.

Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.

True happiness means forging a strong spirit that is undefeated, no matter how trying our circumstances.

The road to happiness has never been a straight one, and yet, it is the only road worth traveling, no matter how curvy or rocky it is!

It's hard to say. Sometimes people have had terrible childhoods. And sometimes they just haven't found their special place in life. And sometimes they're dogs from hell and must be destroyed.

The happy person often walks, unshaken, along the path that a thousand unhappy people insist is wrong.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Happiness is dealing with setbacks with more grace, understanding and acceptance

I never would have made it if I could not have laughed. It lifted me momentarily out of this horrible situation, just enough to make it livable.

If we approach adversities wisely, our hardest times can be times of greatest growth, which in turn can lead toward times of greatest happiness.

This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!

Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.

No man can smile in the face of adversity and mean it.