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Adversity
1. Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
by Michael Jordan
2. The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
by Moliere
3. Realize that he who wrestles with you always strenghtens your nerves and sharpens your skills. Your antagonist is always, in the end, your best helper.
by Og Mandino
4. Adversity is the rain in your life, cold, comfortless, and unfriendly. Yet from that season are born the lily, the rose, the date, and the pomegranate… Even the desert blooms after a storm.
From the Greatest Success in the World
5. There is no man in this world without some manner of tribulation, though he be king or pope.
by Thomas ŕ Kemphis
7. Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few more upon it.
by Albert Schweitzer
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