#adversity

In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us. ↗

— Brigham Young

#best #displease #does #find #friends

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#adversity #fresh #means #only #overcoming

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#away #cannot #like #ourselves #really

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides. ↗

— David Hare

#deep #high #minds #ones #prosperity

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#adversity #great #greater #prosperity

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#blessing #new #old #old testament #prosperity

Sometimes the best and worst times of your life can coincide. It is a talent of the soul to discover the joy in pain—-thinking of moments you long for, and knowing you’ll never have them again. The beautiful ghosts of our past haunt us and yet we still can’t decide if the pain they caused us out weighs the tender moments when they touched our soul. This is the irony of love. (MU Article, 2010) ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#bad-choices #decisions #family #friendship #hindsight

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#diamond #dust #heaven #jewels

Everyone is handed adversity in life. No one's journey is easy. It's how they handle it that makes people unique. ↗

— Kevin Conroy

#easy #everyone #handed #handle #how

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#campaigning #devil #dull #excellent #long