Trouble shared is trouble halved.
—Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957) British Crime Writer
The most valuable gift I ever received was … the gift of insecurity … my father left us. My mother’s love might not have prepared me for life the way my father’s departure did. He forced us out on to the road where we had to earn our bread.
—Lillian Gish (1896–1993) American Actress
When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.
—Mignon McLaughlin (1913–83) American Journalist, Author
One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.
—Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931) Lebanese-American Philosopher, Poet, Sculptor
The robb’d that smiles steals something from the thief: He robs himself that spends a bootless grief
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
The problem with troubleshooting is that trouble shoots back.
—Unknown
I thank God for my handicaps, for, through them, I have found myself, my work, and my God
—Helen Keller (1880–1968) American Author
The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.
—John Vance Cheney (1848–1922) American Poet, Essayist, Librarian
Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.
—Italian Proverb
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
—W. Clement Stone (1902–2002) American Self-help Guru, Entrepreneur
Tough times never last, but tough people do.
—Robert H. Schuller (1926–2015) American Christian Televangelist, Author
In time of prosperity friends will be plenty; In time of adversity not one in twenty.
—James Howell (c.1593–1666) Anglo-Welsh Writer, Historian
A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man; it is what he wants and must have to be good for anything. Hardship and opposition are the native soil of manhood and self-reliance.
—John Neal (1793–1876) American Editor, Poet, Novelist, Critic
Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.
—Aesop (620–564 BCE) Greek Fabulist
Better bread with water than cake with trouble.
—Russian Proverb
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) American Philosopher
If you want to forget all your other troubles, wear too tight shoes.
—Unknown
All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.
—Janet Erskine Stuart (1857–1914) English Catholic Nun, Educationalist
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life: by indifference, which is the most common; by philosophy, which is the most ostentatious; and by religion, which is the most effectual.
—Charles Caleb Colton (c.1780–1832) English Clergyman, Aphorist
He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
—Ben Jonson (1572–1637) English Dramatist, Poet, Actor
Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.
—Jean Anouilh (1910–87) French Dramatist
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
—John Keats (1795–1821) English Poet
Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.
—Unknown
Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything.
They just cry over their condition.
But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
—Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–99) American Lawyer, Orator, Agnostic
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.
—Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879–1958) American Author, Social Activist
The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is still a greater, which is the good man that comes to relieve it.
—Oliver Goldsmith (1730–74) Irish Novelist, Playwright, Poet
As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.
—Thomas a Kempis (1379–1471) German Religious Priest, Writer
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–65) American Head of State
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
—Laurence J. Peter (1919–90) Canadian-Born American Author
The truly great and good, in affliction, bear a countenance more princely than they are wont; for it is the temper of the highest hearts, like the palm tree, to strive most upwards when it is most burdened.
—Philip Sidney (1554–86) English Soldier Poet, Courtier
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