Quotes About Adversity

The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.

The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.

It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

Life deals the cards, but it is up to us how we play them.

M. William Phelps

Expect the worst and hope for the best.

She only sends us challenges when we're not growing fast enough," Vasiht'h said. "So let's just say that we're making up for centuries of stagnation.

You're going to have to suffer some discomfort to grow into your new role, alet. You can choose to do so in a way that minimizes that discomfort… or you can in a way that maximizes the growth. But you can't have both.

You didn't play baseball that well with two hands. How do you think you're going to make it with one? "If you're just going to tell me what I can't do, you can leave.

When I remember my despair now, and I do remember it, what surprises me still is that I survived it. That is the mystery of our lives. That we do survive the unthinkable. We overcome the unimaginable.

That's the one thing that came out of the war—women proved how much they were capable of tackling.

Look for the hidden blessings in difficult situations.

Often that which most we fear births the resolve that spurs us on to altitudes we could not have achieved, had we continued walking on our customary paths.

Merecemos o nosso passo de bichos de dilúvio merecemos que nos ceguem todos os dias merecemos estar sozinhos rodeados de prédios merecemos ter connosco toda a vontade fim princípio moleza de costumes [...]

Daylight follows a dark night.

La vida nos echa toda clase de tierra encima. La solución para salir del pozo está en sacudirnos y dar un paso hacia arriba. Cada uno de nuestros problemas es como un escalón hacia la libertad. Depende sólo de nosotros si lo usamos como tal

El doctor Ihaleakalá siempre dice: «Un problema no es un problema, a menos que digamos que lo es, y el problema no es el problema. El problema es cómo reaccionamos al problema».

É melhor cair das nuvens que de um segundo andar

Não te irrites se te pagarem mal um benefício: antes cair das nuvens, que de um terceiro andar.

A man who is used to acting in one way never changes; he must come to ruin when the times, in changing, no longer are in harmony with his ways.

We should accept indiscriminately all His dispensations, whether obscurity or illumination, fruitfulness or barrenness, weakness or strength, sweetness or bitterness, temptations, distractions, pain, weariness, or doubtings; and none of all these should, for one moment retard our course.

Because of my parents' love of democracy, we came to America after being driven twice from our home in Czechoslovakia - first by Hitler and then by Stalin.

I didn't mean that I'm a nonpareil now. But I'm different, yes. I've found out that I can do quite difficult things if I keep trying very hard, and at least I've discovered that if I don't keep myself occupied I'm unhappy and unpleasant.

Zerbrechliche Herzen sind fürs Schaufenster gut, nicht aber für den Kampf gegen das Böse.