"Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this."

Homer 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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"Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is."

Kempis, Thomas on Adversity
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"You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut."

Maltz, Maxwell 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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"Stumbling is not falling."

Proverb, Portuguese on Adversity
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"Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape."

Richards, Mary Caroline on Adversity
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