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Quotes About Adversity

It's so dreadful to be poor!
~ Louisa May Alcott
Poverty seldom daunts a sincere lover.
~ Louisa May Alcott
What a trying world it is! said Jo, rumpling up her hair in a fretful sort of way. No sooner do we get out of one trouble than down comes another.
~ Louisa May Alcott
La necesidad es la madre de la invención.
~ Louisa May Alcott
No eran conscientes de que las dificultades sirven para poner a prueba el carácter.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Meg's high-heeled slippers were very tight and hurt her, though she would not own it, and Jo's nineteen hairpins all seemed stuck straight into her head, which was not exactly comfortable, but, dear me, let us be elegant or die.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Priva?iunile fac ca pl?cerile s? fie ?i mai dulci.
~ Louisa May Alcott
I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship
~ Louisa May Alcott
I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.
~ Louisa May Alcott
I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning to sail my ship
~ Louisa May Alcott
im not afraidof storms , for i am learning to sail my ship
~ Louisa May Alcott
então eu as aconselho a pegar novamente seus pequenos fardo, pois embora às vezes pareçam pesados, nos fazem bem. e ficam mais leves conforme aprendemos a carregá-los.
~ Louisa May Alcott
A good fit of illness proves the value of health; real danger tries one's mettle; and self-service Sweetner character.
~ Louisa May Alcott
contuve mis lagrimas hasta que se hubiese marchado. ¿Por qué he de quejarme cuando no hemos hecho más que lo correcto y al fin seremos más felices por haberlo hecho?
~ Louisa May Alcott
I only know that it's the way of the world; and people who set themselves against it, only get laughed at for their pains.
~ Louisa May Alcott
I am not afraid of storms, for I'm still learning to sail my ship
~ Louisa May Alcott
I had had lots of troubles; so I write jolly tales.
~ Louisa May Alcottt
What men call adventures usually consist of the stoical endurance of appalling daily misery.
~ Louise Erdrich
Blue Juneberry, tough diamond willow.
~ Louise Erdrich
Delphine witnessed awful things occurring to other humans. Worse than that, she was powerless to alter their fate. It would be that way all her life--disasters, falling like chairs all around her, falling so close they disarranged her hair, but not touching her.
~ Louise Erdrich
Asema. You're forgetting. A people who see themselves primarily as victims are doomed. And we're not doomed, are we?
~ Louise Erdrich
His worst enemy would succumb to this treatment.
~ Ron Chernow
Despite being the target of so much public obloquy, Rockefeller seemed fearless.
~ Ron Chernow
In a little more than two years, they had suffered their father's disappearance and their mother's death, reducing them to orphans and throwing them upon the mercy of friends, family, and community.
~ Ron Chernow