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"Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless."
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"Thank you adversity. Oh, how we stretch and grow in the shadows of darkness just to reach the light."
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"To fall down is to face the weakness of my humanity, test the mettle of my character, and push the limits of my strength. Therefore, falling down will tell me who I am far more clearly than most things I might learn when I'm standing up."
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"(Adversity is) the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself being especially free from admirers then."
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"Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity."
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"Writing a sincere narrative account of personal adversities and misfortunes is one way to become acquainted with the rifts of a person's inmost self, the smothered pieces of want that lie separate and undetected amid the customs, habits, vices, and tedium that encases us in the hubbub of daily living."
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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."
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"The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."
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"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes."
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"Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself."
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"It is adversity that often creates beauty."
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"Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you're alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself."
Courage
"I'm very accessible. I don't get into this ego thing."
Ego
"Half of figure skating is opinion, convincing judges."
Sports
"Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance."
Life
"From the fall of October, 1980 to March, 1984 I never lost a competition."
Competition
"The only disability in life is a bad attitude."
Attitude
"Always try to maintain complete tolerance and always make an effort to give people more than they expect."
People
"Male figure skating is different than female figure skating; we're not America's sweetheart."
Sports
"What was really funny is that as I got older all those guys who called me a sissy in junior high school wanted me to be their best friend because they wanted to meet all the girls that I knew in figure skating."
Friendship
"I didn't want to be the sissy figure skater, you know."
Want
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