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Adversity

At the timberline where the storms strike with the most fury, the sturdiest trees are found.
Hudson newsletter

 The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
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 The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
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 The greatest battles of your life are fought within the private chambers of your own soul.
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 Adversity is the diamond dust heaven polishes it's jewels with.
Leighton

 The pain associated with emotional trials and worries can almost always be lessened by a little love.
Chris Edmunds

Cast thy burden upon the Lord and He shall sustain thee.
Elder Robert D. Hales

We struggle, which is part of the process of becoming like Him.
Sister Elaine L. Jack

Sometimes you need to just have a good cry - but get back in the ring.
Sister Sue Blunt

The darkest hour is always just before dawn.
Chris Edmunds

There's bound to be a little poo in every sandbox. You just have to sift it out and then get back to building your castle or whatever you were doing.
Chris Edmunds

About migrating salmon in Alaska:
... sat down on a fallen log in a cove and pointed. `Look carefully,' he said. `Just beneath the surface of the water are several huge salmon.' Then he pointed to a ripple out in the channel where thousands of salmon were migrating upstream. He said, `They're fresh from the sea, and strong. But tommorow they'll reach the Russian River Falls. They'll make desperate leaps up the face of the falls. Some of them will be too spent to make it, and they'll be dashed back against the rocks below. And then finally they'll die from sheer exhastion.'

He looked back toward the salmon in the cove and comented, `These are different. Some instinct has brought them to this quiet place. It's as if they know the falls are just ahead. Tomorrow they'll continue their migration, rested for whatever comes.
Reader's Digest, December 1983, p. 51

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
Albert Einstein

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
Frederick Douglass

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Henry Kaiser

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant."
-Horace

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death."
Thomas Paine

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
Theodore Rubin