Quotes About Adversity

When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffer and also how to grow.

Those things that hurt, instruct.

Benjamin Franklin said, "Those things that hurt, instruct.

Most do not fully see this truth that life is difficult. Instead they moan more or less incessantly, noisily or subtly, about the enormity of their problems, their burdens, and their difficulties as if life were generally easy, as if life should be easy.

In any case, when we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand from us.

As Benjamin Franklin said, "Those things that hurt, instruct.

By this I mean let us teach ourselves and our children the necessity for suffering and the value thereof, the need to face problems directly and to experience the pain involved. I

What they once perceived as problems they now perceive as opportunities.

And since life poses an endless series of problems, life is always difficult and is full of pain as well as joy.

M?sura-probabil cea mai bun?- a m?re?iei unei persoane este capacitatea de a suferi''.

As Benjamin Franklin said, "Those things that hurt, instruct." It is for this reason that wise people learn not to dread but actually to welcome problems and actually to welcome the pain of problems.

Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and our wisdom. It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.

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

It is hardly remarkable that we sicken and die; what is truly remarkable is that we don't usually sicken very often and we don't die very quickly. We can therefore say the same thing about physical disorders that we said about mental disorders: There is a force, the mechanism of which we do not fully understand, that seems to operate routinely in most people to protect and encourage their physical health even under the most adverse conditions.

wise people learn not to dread but actually to welcome problems and actually to welcome the pain of problems.

It is through the pain of confronting and resolving problems that we learn.

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

One measure—and perhaps the best measure—of a person's greatness is the capacity for suffering.

Când nu mai avem puterea s? ne lupt?m cu lumea asta s?lbatic?, ne întoarcem în noi È™i începem s? ne facem r?u nou? înÈ™ine...

Não há mal que não traga um pouco de bem, e por isso é que o mal é útil, muita vez indispensável, alguma vez delicioso

O mundo regurgita de almas melindrosas, que, como a sensitiva dos campos, se contraem e murcham ao menor contacto. Sair salvo e rijo dos combates da vida é caso de rara superioridade.

Life without struggle is a dead sea at the center of the universal organism.

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuous in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.