Trials And Tribulations Quotes

Don't let yesterday’s storm keep you from enjoying today's sunshine.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The cicadas buzzing, I can hear them through the window. Buzzing louder and louder. Just like the night I sat by the window in the dark, gasping for air, feeling the riddle wriggling in my chest, hearing the monster's heavy footsteps in my ears. And suddenly I know. What they do all those years living in the ground. The nymphs who are to become cicadas. Maybe they don’t know it themselves, but they are writing their song. Collecting the notes in the dark earth. The song rising to the sky, this is how it is, this is how it always is. The song floating toward the sky comes from the underworld.

We learn much by tribulation, and by adversity our hearts are made better. -Bishop Milton Wright to Orville Wright, 20 Sept. 1908

David McCullough

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

Matshona Dhliwayo

Beautiful souls are shaped by ugly experiences.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Endure, my heart; yea, a baser thing thou once didst bear

Homer

I am grateful for all the trials for that made be a better person.

Lailah Gifty Akita

When the same lessons of life that taught them teaches you, you get a good understanding of what made them become who and what they became; you appreciate them better and you uphold the dignity of their integrity in high esteem!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Cradle of SolitudeFor we know not why our tribulationsare given as suchour fragile formscreated from the dust...

Muse

I had to open my eyes, so I could see a new life!

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

God love's in the dark.

John Paul Warren

It's a shame there has to be a tragedy before the best in people will finally shine.

E.A. Bucchianeri

You are not forever in the dark. Look up. There's the Light.

God will only push you off a cliff if He's going to give you wings to fly.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Our most beautiful dreams are born from our most unpleasant nightmares.

Matshona Dhliwayo

It is in deep waters that God teaches us to swim.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A rose’s beautiful scent is extracted only when it is crushed.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A tree does not stop growing because the wind blew off a few of its leaves.

Matshona Dhliwayo

One friend in a storm is worth more than a thousand friends in sunshine.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The Lord doesn't always make our paths smooth sailing, but He does make it possible to rise above adversity.

What you endured was a sign of what you would become.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Wind either breaks a tree or teaches it to dance.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Extraordinary storms turn average seamen into extraordinary sailors.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Stars are born out of dark moments.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A rainbow earns its colors in the storm.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A mighty storm is inconsequential when facing a mighty ship.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Perfume is the scent that pours out of a flower's soul when crushed.

Matshona Dhliwayo

I am the bended, but not broken. I am the power of the thunderstorm. I am the beauty in the beast. I am the strength in weakness. I am the confidence in the midst of doubt. I am Her!

Kierra C.T. Banks

The rainbow’s colors are hidden in the storm.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The storm only comes to teach you how to skillfully sail your ship.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A flower blooming in a storm is stronger than a tree blossoming under a rainbow.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The ugliest storms paint the loveliest rainbows.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Only dead leaves allow the wind to blow them to and fro.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Wine had to be grapes first. Diamonds had to be rocks first. Butterflies had to be caterpillars first. Rainbows had to be storms first.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If the sky had no tears, the world would have no rainbows.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If an opportunity comes dressed in trouble’s apparel, do not scorn it.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Pain teaches you more than pleasure. Failure teaches you more than success. Poverty teaches you more than prosperity. Adversity teaches you more than comfort.

Matshona Dhliwayo

It is impossible to graduate from the University of Life with no scars.

Matshona Dhliwayo

We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Our trials are our greatest teachers, mentors and benefactors.

Auliq-Ice

Not only do our trials become classrooms that teach us life’s most profound lessons, they add joy and meaning to daily living.

Auliq-Ice

Life, is a chess game you win or loose, but just keep playing.

Auliq-Ice

Advice to my younger self:1 Start where you are with what you have2 Try not to hurt other people3 Take more chances4 If you fail, keep trying

Be the calm in someone else’s storm.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A leaf has no power to resist when the wind blows, but when life’s storms rage, you do.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Learn from the ocean; not fearing turbulence, it uses the wind against it to rise instead.

Matshona Dhliwayo

But, as I know that strength arising from obedience has a way of simplifying things which seem impossible, my will very gladly resolves to attempt this task although the prospect seems to cause my physical nature great distress; for the Lord has not given me strength enough to enable me to wrestle continually both with sickness and with occupations of many kinds without feeling a great physical strain. May He Who has helped me by doing other and more difficult things for me help also in this: in His mercy I put my trust.

Teresa of Avila.

At such times, the heart of man turns instictively towards his Maker. In prosperity, and whenever there is nothing to injure or make him afraid, he remembers Him not, and is ready to defy Him; but place him in the midst of dangers, cut him off from human aid, let the grave open before him, then it is, in the time of his tribulation, that the scoffer and unbelieving man turns to God for help, feeling there is no other hope, or refuge, or safety, save in his protecting arm.

Solomon Northup