On Adversity 2

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

When the world says, "Give up,"
Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."
~Author Unknown


Turn your wounds into wisdom.
~Oprah Winfrey

When you're feeling your worst, that's when you get to know yourself the best.
~Leslie Grossman

When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful.
~Barbara Bloom

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
~African Proverb

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
~Friedrich Nietzsche


The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.
~John Vance Cheney

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
~Duke Ellington

The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
~Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own, 1929

Convert difficulties into opportunities, for difficulties are divine surgeries to make you better. ~Author Unknown

Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.
~Josephine Hart

To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
~Oscar Wilde

Thorns and stings
And those such things
Just make stronger
Our angel wings.
~Emme Woodhull-Bäche


The course of true anything never does run smooth.
~Samuel Butler

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
~Steven Kloves, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (movie)

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater.
~William Hazlitt

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. ~Henry David Thoreau

God gave burdens, also shoulders.
~Yiddish Proverb

It is always in the midst, in the epicenter, of your troubles that you find serenity.
~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wartime Writings 1939-1944, translated from French by Norah Purcell