Quotes About Adversity

Jörgen var frjáls maður. Hann gat gert það sem honum sýndist en það var það versta sem fyrir hann gat komið. Frelsið sem hann þráði svo heitt var versti óvinur hans. Þegar hann var frjáls gerði hann vitleysurnar.

The King, who excelled all the princes of his time in wisdom and greatness of soul, did not suffer difficulty to deter him or danger to daunt him from anything that had to be taken up or carried through, for he-had trained himself to bear and endure whatever came, without yielding in adversity, or trusting to the deceitful favors of fortune in prosperity.

he lost his weapon as well as his confidence as he fell.

Where there were no other insects than the fleas our dogs carried in their thick coat, if even they had not be frozen to death.

Gradually I learned to cease looking upon challenges as difficulties and began to see tense situations as opportunities to put my growing love to use. We can do this everywhere;

You never knew what shape your enemies would take." from the book -- Black Gold of the Sun

Boy, this really wasn't one of his days. He just couldn't put a foot right. It was a situation all too familiar to me, this business of setting off on the wrong foot and doggedly remaining there. Only I'd never watched it from the outside before. It was fascinating.

We may not be able to control life's circumstances, but we always have a choice about how we use our minds to respond to them.

Whatever the times, suffering eventually touches every life. How we live with it, and help others to, is one of the great creative and ethical opportunities for HSPs.

Sooner or later everyone encounters stressful life experiences, but HSPs react more to such stimulation. If you see this reaction as part of some basic flaw, you intensify the stress already present in any life crisis.

And while a difficult past may seem at first to hamper our living our life's purpose, sometimes it serve the purpose, too. Or it is the purpose—to fully experience and understand a certain kind of human problem.

HSPs with a troubled childhood are more at risk of becoming depressed, anxious, and shy than those with a similar childhood who are not highly sensitive. But HSPs with good-enough childhoods were no more at risk than others. Another study the same year by Miriam Liss and others found the same result, mainly for depression.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of troubles

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. That is part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it; and understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness. The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure continously without resentment.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in on the experience.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

The man who is anybody and who does anything is certainly going to be criticized, vilified and misunderstood. This is a part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it; and understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness.

The man who is anybody and who does anything is certainly going to be criticized, vilified and misunderstood. This is a part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it...

When life hands you lemons make lemonade ! After my cancer diagnosis this became my Moto and it got me though the worst of it! I came out ahead cancer free for five years so far !!!!!

Now is your trying time; now you are learning how to become master of every power that you possess; and if you are careless of your opportunities now you will be less a man some day than you might have been.