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Quotes About Adversities

Can you ever solve poverty? Can you ever solve crime? Can you ever solve disease, unemployment, war, or any other societal herpes? Hell no.
~ Max Brooks
The eagle ... can lock its wings and wait for the right wind. He waits for the updraft and never has to flap his wings, just soar. As as we wait on God He will help us use the adversities and strong winds to benefit us. The Bible says, 'They that wait upon the Lord ... shall mount up with wings as eagles' (Isaiah 40:31)
~ Billy Graham
Jamaica has problems; America has problems; everywhere has problems.
~ Ziggy Marley
In the problems lie the opportunities. You become strong by facing adversities.
~ Debasish Mridha
They say troubles never comes singly,
~ G.A. Henty
I am at home, for I am he. I bore adversities, but in the twentieth year, I am ashore in my own land.
~ Homer
Every age has its happiness and troubles.
~ Jeanne Calment
A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.
~ Ibrahim Babangida
There are no problems in the world. There are just situations. Some situations you know how to handle. Some you do not know how to handle.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
it's not the large things that send a man to the madhouse. death he's ready for, or murder, incest, robbery, fire, flood … no, it's the continuing series of small tragedies that send a man to the madhouse …
~ Charles Bukowski
People love miracles; they love stories which break through adversities.
~ Mahesh Bhatt
We wear our problems diffrently
~ Ned Vizzini
We wear our problems differently.
~ Ned Vizzini
There are instincts for all the encounters of life.
~ Victor Hugo
Everybody has a right to their own troubles.
~ Thornton Wilder, Our Town
The testimony of a good conscience is the glory of a good man. Have a good conscience and thou shalt ever have joy. A good conscience is able to bear exceeding much, and is exceeding joyful in the midst of adversities; an evil conscience is ever fearful and unquiet. Thou shalt rest sweetly if thy heart condemn thee not.
~ Thomas a Kempis
All Saints have passed through much tribulation and temptation, and have profited thereby. And they who endured not temptation became reprobate and fell away. There is no position so sacred, no place so secret, that it is without temptations and adversities.
~ Thomas a Kempis
Pressure cranks and presses Life, squeezing out essence of self, aromatic with bittersweet memories, pungent adversities, and the honey-musk of desire — vapors hover over our inkpots, and if we are willing and able to pick up the feather, it becomes our poetry.
~ Terri Guillemets
the real trials of life are not the great tragedies. Not these, but the small vexations that come back over and over till you think that one more day like this will turn you into a screaming maniac
~ Gwen Bristow
Everybody has a right to their own troubles.
~ Thornton Wilder
India is no stranger to crises - wars, hijackings, plane crashes - we have seen them all.
~ Sucheta Dalal
The causes of atheism are, divisions in religion, if they be many; for any one division addeth zeal to both sides; but many divisions introduce atheism . . . . And lastly, learned times, especially with peace and prosperity; for troubles and adversities do more bow men's minds to religion.
~ Will Durant
Brilliant little irruptions Brilliant little connections Brilliant little illusions Brilliant little lips Brilliant little altercations Very brilliant little honey combs Brilliant little adversities Very brilliant little ravages Brilliant little cogs Brilliant little circumvolutions Around a vertical axis Why has the deficiency of the mentally deficient become a cultural fact, whereas the very much more terrible fact of ordinary stupidity strikes no one as very odd?
~ Jean Baudrillard
Successful stress management heavily revolves around combating the building blocks of psychological stress - a feeling as if you have no control over the adversities in your life, a feeling that you have no predictive information about the stressors, if you lack outlets for the frustrations caused by the stressors, if you have no social support.
~ Robert Sapolsky