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Adversity Quotes
"Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity."
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"Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us."
"You can only appreciate being up when you know what it's like to have been down."
"Adversity introduces a man to himself."
"Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her."
"They're a group called The Spirit-crushers and their leader is known as The Almighty Spirit-crusher."
"Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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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