"Adversity is a stimulus."

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"It is adversity that often creates beauty."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Adversity, Beauty, Creation

"Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her."

Benjamin Franklin, American Politician

Adversity, Reason

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

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

Adversity, Prosperity

"Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Adversity, State

"They're a group called The Spirit-crushers and their leader is known as The Almighty Spirit-crusher."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

Adversity, Spirit, Oppression, Identity, Self-Esteem

"There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there."

Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist

Adversity, Reason, Growth, Challenge

"You are unfortunate in my judgment, for you have never been unfortunate. You have passed through life with no antagonist to face you; no one will know what you were capable of, not even you yourself."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Adversity, Fortune, Resilience, Reflection

"Trouble seems to follow me around, waiting to club me with a tire iron."

Patricia Briggs, American Author

Adversity, Trouble, Fate, Resilience, Humor

"There were moments when it honestly seemed as if the world were conspiring against her."

Nicholas Sparks, American Author

Adversity, Struggle, Isolation, Conflict, Truth

"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant."

Horace, Roman Poet

Adversity, Circumstances, Effect

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"Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open."

Equality

"The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy."

Poetry

"The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric."

Joy

"I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made."

Poems

"For me a poem has to sing out of itself and the lilt of it carries the magic."

Economy

"A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living."

Life

"Consciousness is the glory of creation."

Consciousness

"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

"My earliest poems sing of the absolute necessity of allowing love to invade and pervade one's life. That can make the miracle happen in reality. Try it."

Love

"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