"When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge. "

Kupferberg, Tuli on creativity   

"Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return."

Pilgrim, Peace on love
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"Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture."

Colton, Charles Caleb on adversity
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"We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds."

Grant, Hanmer Parsons on adversity
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"Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart."

Glasgow, Arnold H. on adversity
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"Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you."

Gesser on adversity
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"Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward."

Gallagher, Robert C. on adversity
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"Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues."

France, Anatole on adversity
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"He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles."

Fosdick, Harry Emerson on adversity
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"Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward."

Ford, Henry on adversity
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"Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul."

Ford, Elias A. on adversity
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"Failure is success if we learn from it."

Forbes, Malcolm S. on adversity
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"To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete."

Epictetus on adversity
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"A wounded deer leaps the highest."

Dickinson, Emily on adversity
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"Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable."

Havner, Vance on adversity
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"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit."

Hill, Napoleon on adversity
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"The harder you fall, the higher you bounce."

Horton, Doug on adversity
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"That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light."

Pike, Albert on adversity
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"The racism, the sexism, I never let it be my problem, it's their problem. If I see a door comin' my way, I'm knockin' it down. And if I can't knock down the door, I'm sliding through the window. I'll never let it stop me from what I wanna do."

Perez, Rosie on adversity
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"I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way."

Penney, J. C. (James Cash) on adversity
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"Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle."

Peale, Norman Vincent on adversity
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"Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines."

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel'' on adversity
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"There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time."

Mandino, Og on adversity
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"Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change."

Malcolm X on adversity
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"Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle."

Lowell, James Russell on adversity
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"There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat."

Lawrence, Thomas E. on adversity
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"Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be."

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous'' on adversity
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"I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it."

Jackson, Janet on adversity
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"There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity."

Irving, Washington on adversity
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"One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity."

Schweitzer, Albert on adversity
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"By bravely enduring it, an evil which cannot be avoided is overcome"

Proverb on evil
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"Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune."

James, William on adversity
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"You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals."

Patton, George S. on goals   

"A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them."

Jung, Carl on passion
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"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it."

Keller, Helen on suffering
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"Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction."

Frank, Anne on work
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"The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something."

Ford, Henry on work
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"Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement."

Fleyer, Paul J. on work
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"Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on work
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"A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing."

Conrad, Joseph on work   

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