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"One of the most important truths we can know when facing life's challenges is the following: this experience came to give me soul-growth and to bless me.

If we seek to avoid the experience, we deprive ourself of the blessing contained therein. We often forget the Laws of Mind-Action and Cause and Effect. If we didn't need the experience for our growth, it would be unlikely to come to us. Or if it did, we wouldn't be affected or even bothered! We would serenely and confidently move through the situation."
-- Sir John Marks Templeton (1912-) author, investor, businessman and philanthropist

"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant."
-- Horace (65-8 BC) Roman Poet

"Adversity introduces a man to himself."
-- Unknown

"Adversity is the first path to truth."
-- Lord Byron

"The courage to face the trials and to bring a whole new body of possibilities into the field of interpreted experience for other people to experience – that is the hero’s deed."
-- Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

"A crisis allows us the opportunity to dig deep into the reservoirs of our very being, to rise to levels of confidence, strength, and resolve that otherwise we didn't think we possessed. Through adversity, we come face to face with who we really are and what really counts."
-- Jon Huntsman, self-made American billionaire, author of Winners Never Cheat

"Every adversity carries within it the seed of equal or greater benefit."
-- Napoleon Hill

"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."
-- Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672) American poet

"If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn"
-- Bernie Siegel, MD

"In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time."
-- Robert Collier (1885-1950) Writer and Publisher

"It's much easier to face adversity when our backs are not turned to it."
-- Brian G. Jett

"Misfortune can force you into doing things you should be doing anyway. Lessons come from adversity. Anything can happen to anyone... You can find a new lease on life -- more meaning than you thought possible in simple things... Let go. Live in the moment. Go forward."
-- Christopher Reeve

"One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity."
-- Albert Schweitzer

"Overcoming adversity can become a habit, just as running from adversity can become a habit. Look around you and see if you don't notice people who seem to fall into one of these two categories. Some people seem to thrive on adversity. They love a challenge, they almost look forward to problems, and when adversity hits, they throw themselves into finding the "fix". Other people seem to run from problems almost out of reflex. Habits can work for you or against you, so make overcoming adversity a habit, and it will work for you."
-- Edward W. Smith, Sixty Seconds To Success

"Pressing forward is to push against the adversity of life with courage and determination to succeed. We cannot press forward without a steadfastness in Christ, because that steadfastness makes us resistant and resilient to the forces pressing against us."
-- Anita R. Canfield, Perfect Brightness of Hope

"I will have faith that, though I might not understand why adversity happens, by my conscious choice I can find strength, compassion, and grace through my trials."
-- Joe Tye, The Self-Empowerment Pledge

"The value of liberty was thus enhanced in our estimation by the difficulty of its attainment, and the worth of characters appreciated by the trial of adversity."
--George Washington

"We don't grow courageous by leading a life of ease. Rather, we become warriors by overcoming adversity, licking our wounds, and moving forward."
-- Chuck Gallozzi

"A certain amount of opposition is a great help for a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind."
-- John Neal (1793-1876) American novelist, poet

"And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present, and can be none in the future,
And I will show that whatever happens to anybody it may be turned to beautiful results."
-- Walt Whitman

"Of all the virtues we can learn, no trait is more useful, more essential for survival, and more likely to improve the quality of life than the ability to transform adversity into an enjoyable challenge."
-— Mihalyi Czikszentmilaly

"Shoulda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done. In attacking adversity, only a positive attitude, alertness, and regrouping to basics can launch a comeback."
-- Pat Riley

"The bamboo which bends is stronger than the oak which resists."
-- Japanese Proverb

"We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival."
-- Sir Winston Churchill

"Within each storm of life is hidden a key that will unlock another door that you were meant to walk through."
-- Steve Brunkhorst

"I love the man that can smile in trouble
that can gather strength from distress,
and grow brave by reflection."
-- Thomas Paine, writer

"As the tree is fertilized by its own broken branches and fallen leaves, and grows out of its own decay, so men and nations are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations."
-- Frederick William Robertson (1816-1853) English ecclesiastic

"The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials."-- Chinese Proverb