We live in a day when the adversary stresses on every hand the philosophy of instant gratification. We seem to demand instant everything, including instant solutions to our problems. . .It was meant to be that life would be a challenge. To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal.

Boyd K. Packer

Learning to endure times of disappointment, suffering, and sorrow is part of our on-the-job training. These experiences, while often difficult to bear at the time, are precisely the kinds of experiences that stretch our understanding, build our character, and increase our compassion for others.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

I daresay it seems foolish; perhaps all our earthly trials will appear foolish to us after a while; perhaps they seem so now to angels. But we are ourselves, you know, and this is now, not some time to come, a long, long way off. And we are not angels, to be comforted by seeing the ends for which everything is sent.

Elizabeth Gaskell

If you fall-and trust me, you will- make sure you fall on your back. Because if you fall on your back, you can see up. And if you can see up, you can get up. And you can keep going and going and going.

Hoda Kotb

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

I have seen human beings who have forged "intellectual" armor to shield themselves from adversity. They seemed stronger than most. They said, "I couldn't care less," and laughed at everything, but when adversity managed to pierce their armor, it caused terrible damage.I have seen human beings suffer from the slightest adversity, the slightest annoyance, but still remain open-minded and sensitive to everything, learning something from each attack.

Bernard Werber

I can't control the wind but I can adjust the sail.

Ricky Skaggs

It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

Bruce Barton

Regardless of the situation, don’t let the bastards win … and have no regrets … for it will be a good day!-Richard Wakinyan (Martian Fleet Commander)

R.G. Risch

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

Helen Keller

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.

Billy Graham

If thou art willing to suffer no adversity, how wilt thou be the friend of Christ?

Thomas à Kempis

The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.

Horace Bushnell

Difficulties are what makes it honorable and interesting to be alive.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

Solon

Those doves below, the ones utterly cared for, never endangered ones, cannot know tenderness.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Some people is born at the start of a long hard row to hoe. Well, I am older than God's dog and been in this world a long time and it seems to me that right from the git-go, Larkin Stanton had the longest and hardest row I've ever seen.

Sheila Kay Adams

Always be in command of your music. If life throws you a few bad notes or vibrations, don't let them interrupt or alter your song.

Suzy Kassem

Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.

Edgar Allan Poe

These are the times that try men's souls.

Thomas Paine

Sometimes things have to go wrong in order to go right.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

Theodore Roosevelt

Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might like to be.

Arthur Golden

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so wel

Anne Bradstreet

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

We face up to awful things because we can't go around them, or forget them. The sooner you say 'Yes, it happened, and there's nothing I can do about it,' the sooner you can get on with your own life. You've got children to bring up. So you've got to get over it. What we have to get over, somehow we do. Even the worst things.

Annie Proulx

Sweet are the uses of adversityWhich, like the toad, ugly and venomous,Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

William Shakespeare

If for a while the harder you try, the harder it gets, take heart. So it has been with the best people who ever lived. (The Inconvenient Messiah, BYU Speeches, Feb 15, 1982)

Jeffrey R. Holland

It is in the whole process of meeting and solving problems that life has meaning. Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and our wisdom. It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually. It is through the pain of confronting and resolving problems that we learn.

M. Scott Peck

All events are blessings given to us to learn from.

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.

Abigail Adams

It's essential you create a fiery will from within--harness that power of decisiveness--and choose to be your strongest self.

Karen Salmansohn

My voice was a bare rasp of fear. "In the weaving room, the women say it's never been this bad before..." "They always say that when things get difficult," she answered softly. Then she sat up suddenly as though coming fully awake. Reaching down, she took my chin in her hand and tipped my face to look up at hers. "Remember, Gwen, no matter who says what, the important thing is to understand what needs to be done, and then do it. No matter how hard it is, or how much pain you feel. It's as simple as that, really. Once you know what you have to do, you just do it.

Persia Woolley

May your life be filled, as mine has been, with love and laughter; and remember, when things are rough all you need is ... Chocolate.

Geraldine Solon

Struggle is the food from which change is made, and the best time to make the most of a struggle is when it's right in front of your face. Now, I know that might sound a bit simplistic. But, too often we're led to believe that struggling is a bad thing, or that we struggle because we're doing something wrong. I disagree. I look at struggle as an opportunity to grow. True struggle happens when you can sense what is not working for you and you're willing to take the appropriate action to correct the situation. Those who accomplish change are willing to engage the struggle.

Danny Dreyer

We are like the herb which flourisheth most when trampled upon

Walter Scott

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

C.S. Lewis

It is not because things are difficult that we dare not undertake them. Be then bold in spirit. Indulge no doubts, for doubts are traitors.

L.G. Abell

Be strong and courageous. Fear not! God will grant you the strength to overcome any adversity.

Lailah Gifty Akita

A star never lets anything dull its sparkle, not even darkness.

Matshona Dhliwayo

I am a happy soul, despite all life challenges.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Far help seldom solves near troubles.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Be like a rose; no matter how many thorns you encounter in life, bloom.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The game isn't big enough unless it scares you a little. Cmdr. William Riker

Star Trek: The Next Generation Episode Guide Team

Life tries to crush her, but only succeeded in making a diamond.

John Green

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

Robertson Davies

Even in its darkest passages, the heart is unconquerable. It is important that the body survives, but it is more meaningful that the human spirit prevails.

Dave Pelzer

The most difficult adversary I have ever faced happens to look just like me.

Johnnie Dent Jr.

My friends, we should consider ourselves fortunate, not because we are any greater or lesser because we face adversity, rather we simply rejoice in the opportunity to face it.

Michael Joling

With patience endurance, you can survive any storm.

Lailah Gifty Akita

With a perseverance spirit, you withstand any situation.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Perseverance is one of the keys to overcome the adverse circumstances of life.

Prophetess Dina Rolle

Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day; imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.

Henry James

Stars are not praised for shining during the day, but at night.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Let's face it. you become a deeper person amidst adversity. You become a more perceptive, strong, resilient person when life is not handed to you on a silver platter held by a butler.

Cathy Lamb

My reality isn't as gracious as it use to be, so I create things that are.

Nikki Rowe

The hardest thing about "everything happens for a reason" is waiting for that reason to show up.

Karen Salmansohn

Chronologically she is twelve, but emotionally she is older, and intellectually older still.

Dean Koontz

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