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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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"(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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes."
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Personal Development
"Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself."
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Personal Development
"It is adversity that often creates beauty."
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"The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy."
Power
"Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous."
Age
"Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid."
Adversity
"Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more."
Wisdom
"The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination."
Reading
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