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"Adversity is a stimulus."
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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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Personal Development
"Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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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"I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion."
Emotional
"Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater."
Movies
"Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is."
Poetry
"Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite."
Truth
"The American public does not know poets exist."
Economy
"I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action."
Imagination
"Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be."
People
"For me, prose walks, poetry dances."
Poetry
"Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness."
Violence
"I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic."
Economy
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