#adversity

Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#providence #trials #trials

...the sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#god #trials #trials

You are a strong woman now, not the insecure, introverted, spoiled brat I married. You know adversity and know how to fight for success. You will do great in this world as you carry on. Be careful. Remember: they all want to fuck you. Few will love you. I do and did. ↗

— Tit Elingtin

#goodbye #love #success #love

If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim. ↗

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#sorrow #love

Memories of the past year came tumbling down on me. The recent changes and reverses were almost overwhelming. I was learning that life flowed like a river. When the run-off was normal, the water ran smoothly. But if there came a downpour, it gushed. In the likeness to a flooding river, life events were caught up in the course of the devouring stream. ↗

— Mary Margaret Jensen

#life #trials #change

Our triumph over sorrow is not that we can avoid it but that we can endure it. And therein lies our hope; that in spirit we might become bigger than the problems we face. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#hope #forgiveness

Spending time looking for what is missing in your life is futile; if you fail to look within yourself. When we challenge everything we believe we are, we reveal that which we never knew about our own selves. ↗

— Nicolas G. Janovsky

#inspirational #introspection #politics #self-discovery #strength-through-adversity

Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance. ↗

— Abigail Adams

#inspirational #inspirational

Life is at its best when everything has fallen out of place, and you decide that you're going to fight to get them right, not when everything is going your way and everyone is praising you. ↗

— Thisuri Wanniarachchi

#happiness #hard-times #inspirational #life #inspirational

Adversity is not a bad thing~It's a God thing! ↗

— Prophetess Dina Rolle

#adversity-inspirational #adversity-strength-achievement #dina-rolle #god #god-s-grace