"I feel like an aeroplane at the end of its flight, in the dusk, with the petrol running out, in search of a safe landing."
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"Everything trends towards catastrophe & collapse. I am interested, geared up & happy. Is it not horrible to be built like that?"
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"It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it."
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"We all travel different roads to our ultimate destinations. For some of us the path is rockier than for others. But no one reaches the end without feeling some form of adversity. So rather than fight it, why not accept it as the way of life? Why not detach yourself from the outcomes and simply experience every circumstance that enters your life to the fullest?"
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"Ive learned that everything happens for a reason, the yogi Krishnan told him. Every event has a why and all adversity teaches us a lesson... Never regret your past. Accept it as the teacher that it is."
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"The wisest among us - the genuine leaders - smile in the face of adversity."
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"I know that it is often difficult to stand up for one's beliefs when they are being harshly challenged. But as one who has seen many challenges over a long lifetime, I can assure you that personal faith and conviction are strengthened, not weakened, in adversity."
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"Adversity cleanses the lethargies of man"
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"The prince who relies upon their words, without having otherwise provided for his security, is ruined; for friendships that are won by awards, and not by greatness and nobility of soul, although deserved, yet are not real, and cannot be depended upon in time of adversity."
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"These studies are a spur to the young, a delight to the old: an ornament in prosperity, a consoling refuge in adversity; they are pleasure for us at home, and no burden abroad; they stay up with us at night, they accompany us when we travel, they are with us in our country visits."
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"Rejoicing refers to moderation of spirit when the mind keeps itself in calmness under adversity and does not give indulgence to grief. Constant praying is the way of 'rejoicing perpetually', for by this means we ask from God alleviation in connection with all our distresses."
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"In so many things, growth comes from adversity."
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"The surest way to reveal one's character is not through adversity but by giving them power."
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"It is in adversity that the good show their friendship most clearly; prosperity always finds friends."
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"God's way of dealing with us is to throw us into situations over our depth, then supply us with the necessary ability to swim."
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"We talk about mental toughness all the time. That's the biggest thing good teams have, that they can overcome adversity."
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"I had been seasoned by adversity, and tutored by experience, and I longed to redeem my lost honour in the eyes of those whose opinion was more than that of all the world to me."
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"He is the most wretched of men who has never felt adversity."
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"You never can tell whether bad luck may not after all turn out to be good luck."
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"If I stay on for the time being, bearing the burden at my age, it is not because of love for power or office. I have had an ample share of both. If I stay it is because I have a feeling that I may, through things that have happened, have an influence about what I care about above all else, the building of a sure and lasting peace."
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