"Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great."

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"It is adversity that often creates beauty."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"Adversity introduces a man to himself."

Albert Einstein, German Scientist

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"The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"(Adversity is) the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself being especially free from admirers then."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"You can only appreciate being up when you know what it's like to have been down."

Christina Engela, South African Author

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"Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Bad things bring out the real you, the person hidden beneath all those layers of comfort."

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"If man could write his own fate, he would have designed his journey to be without obstacles. Yet all obstacles come with valuable lessons designed just for you and only you. Suffering is imposed on us time and again so that one day we would become brave wise masters. That is, a strong being who is confidently aware of their intended direction in life, and fearlessly adding value to the world and their future."

Suzy Kassem, American Writer

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"In an emergency, one often learns that one's companions can be of even less help in extraordinary circumstances than they are during an average evening."

Lemony Snicket, American Author

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"If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation."

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"The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror."

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"It is adversity that often creates beauty."

"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes."

"Adversity introduces a man to himself."

"The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity."

"(Adversity is) the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself being especially free from admirers then."

"You can only appreciate being up when you know what it's like to have been down."

"Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself."

"Bad things bring out the real you, the person hidden beneath all those layers of comfort."

"In an emergency, one often learns that one's companions can be of even less help in extraordinary circumstances than they are during an average evening."

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"Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?"

"I've had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it."

"If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation."

"I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it."

"I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved."

"I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life."

"The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror."