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Calamity, nA more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering
~adversity saying by Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder
~inspirational sayings about Adversity quotes by Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own, 1929
A new wound makes all the old ones ache again.
~adversity quotes by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
~famous quotes about Education by Aristotle
Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good
~adversity sayings by Lucy Larcom
The horror of that moment, the King went on, "I shall never, never forget!" "You will, though," the Queen said, "if you don't make a memorandum of it
~adversity saying by Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass, 1872
There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.
~inspirational sayings about Adversity quotes by Harry Crews
I bear a little more than I can bear
~adversity quotes by Elinor Hoyt Wylie, Angels and Earthly Creatures. One Person. Sonnet XVI
That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not.
~famous quotes about Adversity by James K. Feibleman
Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight
~adversity sayings by Josh Billings
As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.
~adversity saying by Orson Scott Card
I had a lover's quarrel with the world
~inspirational sayings about Adversity quotes by Robert Frost, The Lesson for Today, 1942
He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skillOur antagonist is our helper
~adversity quotes by Edmund Burke, The Revolution in France, 1790
It just wouldn't be a picnic without the ants
~famous quotes about Adversity by Author Unknown
Every path hath a puddle.
~adversity sayings by George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum
But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.
~adversity saying by Vincent van Gogh, Dear Theo: An Autobiography of Vincent van Gogh, 1937
I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.
~good sayings about Jewelry by Titus Maccius Plautus
For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.
~adversity quotes by Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, 1962
The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs, of his neighbor.
~motivational quotes about Hypocrisy sayings by Benjamin Franklin
To teach how to live with uncertainty, yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy can do.
~adversity sayings by Bertrand Russell
Says the rude child: No, I won't do it. Says the courteous grown-up: Yes, I won't do it.
~adversity saying by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Horse sense, n.: Stable thinking.
~good sayings about Horses by Author Unknown
No one should have to dance backward all of their lives.
~adversity quotes by Jill Ruckelshaus
Nature's laws affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.
~motivational quotes about Environment sayings by Luther Burbank
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
~adversity sayings by Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
I don't intentionally spoil my grandkids. It's just that correcting them often takes more energy than I have left.
~adversity saying by Gene Perret
[A knuckleball is] a curve ball that doesn't give a damn.
~good sayings about Baseball by Jimmy Cannon
In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.
~adversity quotes by Jane Haddam
The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.
~motivational quotes about Dancing sayings by Mata Hari
I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.
~adversity sayings by William Stafford
Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or that our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than we suspect of what we think.
~adversity saying by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties; He integrates empirically.
~good sayings about Math by Albert Einstein
The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
~adversity quotes by Walt Whitman
Even stranger things have happened; and perhaps the strangest of all is the marvel that mathematics should be possible to a race akin to the apes.
~motivational quotes about Math sayings by Eric T. Bell, The Development of Mathematics
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs, jolted by every pebble in the road
~adversity sayings by Henry Ward Beecher
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