#tribulation

Fans made me. The fans gave me a chance, and they made me. Beyond that, my career has been trials and tribulations and ups and downs, so I have to have true fans riding with me. ↗

— Puff Daddy

#beyond #career #chance #downs #fans

Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant. ↗

— Lucretius

#any #because #delectable #free #gaze

The fire of my tribulations had not simply been pain to be endured. It had been an agent of transformation. After all that I'd been through, I'd changed. Not for the worse, I was pretty sure--at least not yet. But only a moron or a freaking lunatic could have faced the things I had and remained unfazed by them. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#pain #transformation #tribulations #change

Was I sorry that I chose to come by hand cart? No. Neither then nor any minute of my life since. The price we paid to become acquainted with God was a privilege to pay and I am thankful that I was privileged to come in the Martin Hand Cart Company. ↗

— Francis Webster

#mormon #spiritual #tribulation #life

The word of God steadies me. He says your trials and tribulations make you who you are. So you can see my whole story in the way I endured and overcame some testing experiences. ↗

— Evander Holyfield

#experiences #god #i #make #me

It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

#inherit #must #sorrow #tribulation #war