"I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value."

Hesse, Hermann | Growth | 5 bookmarks

"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

Churchill, Winston | Opportunity | 10 bookmarks

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

Einstein, Albert | Difficulties | 24 bookmarks

"Difficulties mastered are opportunities won."

Churchill, Winston | Difficulties | 12 bookmarks

"Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified."

Johnson, Samuel | Achievement | 3 bookmarks

"The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws."

Whitman, Walt | Liberty | 1 bookmarks

"He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo | Love | 6 bookmarks

"The best way out of a difficulty is through it."

Frost, Robert | Difficulties | 7 bookmarks

"Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character."

Robbins, Anthony | Character | 1 bookmarks

"The ultimate Path is without difficulty. Just avoid picking and choosing."

Seng-Ts'an | Zen | 4 bookmarks