"What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise."

Collins, Kitty O'neill on adversity
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"The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them."

Cocteau, Jean 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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"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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"As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man."

Kempis, Thomas on adversity   

"Stop worrying -- nobody gets out of this world alive."

James, Clive on worry
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"Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it."

Fuller, Thomas on absence
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"To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind."

Gautier, Theophile on admiration
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"Peace is the first thing the angels sang."

Leo The Great on angels
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"Thought are but dreams till their effects are tried."

Shakespeare, William on dream
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"But I will be a bridegroom in my death, and run into a lover's bed."

Shakespeare, William on death
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"All that live must die, passing through nature to eternity."

Shakespeare, William on death
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"Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances."

Lowell, James Russell on discipline
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"Democracy give every man the right to be his own oppressor."

Lowell, James Russell on democracy
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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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"Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?"

Kennedy, Rose F. on adversity
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"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

King Jr. Martin Luther on adversity
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"In a dark time, the eye begins to see."

Roethke, Theodore on adversity
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