"I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer."

North, Oliver on trials   

"Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of."

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on trials
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"It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own."

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich on strength
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"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time."

Freud, Anna on strength
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"We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it."

Jefferson, Thomas on strength
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"Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft."

Roosevelt, Theodore on strength
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"Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine."

Bloom, Allan on parents and parenting
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"I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction."

Joyce, James on names
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"Oh, how powerfully the magnet of illusion attracts."

Gutzkow on illusion   

"Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth."

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De on illusion
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"Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?"

Brice, Fanny on affectation
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"If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much."

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy on parents and parenting
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"The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one."

Dryden, John on parents and parenting
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"Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves."

Hubbard, Elbert on parents and parenting
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"From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?"

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) on parents and parenting   

"Having children makes one no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist."

Levine, Michael on parents and parenting
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"Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain."

Locke, John on parents and parenting
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"Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence."

Plato on parents and parenting   

"Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety, so that it may be able to venture unafraid when later emotion comes; the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed. To disapprove, to condemn --the human soul shrivels under barren righteousness."

Stark, Freya on parents and parenting   

"Can anybody remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on difficulties
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"Hardship makes the world obscure."

Delillo, Don on difficulties   

"There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them."

Bottome, Phyllis on difficulties   

"Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things."

Beecher, Henry Ward on difficulties
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"You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round."

Corbett, James J. on perseverance
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"The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on difficulties   

"Into each life some rain must fall, some days be dark and dreary."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on difficulties
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"Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on difficulties
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"Every life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil only in light, and flings no shadows on the canvas."

Maclaren, Alexander on difficulties
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"I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them."

Pasternak, Boris on difficulties
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"If you can't go over, you must go under."

Proverb, Jewish on difficulties   

"Stand still... and refuse to retreat. Look at it as God looks at it and draw upon His power to hold up under the blast."

Swindoll, Charles on difficulties
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"When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up."

Brown, Les on perseverance
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"Bear the inevitable with dignity."

Streckfuss on difficulties