"Nonviolent action, born of the awareness of suffering and nurtured by love, is the most effective way to confront adversity."
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"Friends are proved by adversity."
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"Remorse sleeps during a prosperous period but wakes up in adversity."
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"Lois pursues the truth no matter what sort of adversity faces her. I think Superman sees that, and it's the same moral compass that he has from the Kents."
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"We can no longer afford to spend major time on minor things than spend minor time on major things."
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"In spite of everything that was done to me and my race, in spite of the adversity and the bitter moments, again we rise."
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"There is no wilderness like a life without friends; friendship multiplies blessings and minimizes misfortunes; it is a unique remedy against adversity, and it soothes the soul."
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"True knowledge comes only through suffering."
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"In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things."
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"What is a bad thing anyway? A bad thing is something that is different than what I want. Who gets to decide what the bad thing is? Jerry and Esther watched the mother bird lay her eggs in the nest, and then the neighbor's cat ate the baby bird. Esther said "bad cat!" And the cat said, "good bird!"
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"Often God has to shut a door in our face, so that He can subsequently open the door through which He wants us to go."
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"Without goodness a man cannot endure adversity for long, nor can he enjoy prosperity for long. The good man is naturally at ease with goodness. The wise man cultivates goodness for its advantage."
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"Charity is that rational and constant affection which makes us sacrifice ourselves to the human race, as if we were united with it, so as to form one individual, partaking equally in its adversity and prosperity."
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"Adversity makes strange bedfellows."
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"In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us."
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"To see a man fearless in dangers, untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body."
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"You will never truly know yourself or the strength of your relationships until both have been tested by adversity."
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"The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that too, unconditional assistance, Co-operation which needs consideration is as a commercial contract and not friendship. Conditional co-operation is like adulterated cement which does not bind."
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"Your real courage shows best in the hour of adversity."
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"Politics ruins the character."
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