"I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God."
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"Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit."
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"The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive. You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity. Such knowledge is a true gift, for all that it is painfully won, and it has been worth more than any qualification I ever earned."
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"Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom."
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"In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements."
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"In the turbulence of this anxious and active world many people are leading uneventful, lonely lives. To them dreariness, not disaster, is the enemy. They seldom realize that on their steadfastness, on their ability to withstand the fatigue of dull repetitive work, and on their courage in meeting constant small adversities depend in great measure the happiness and prosperity of the community as a whole. ... The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women."
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"Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see."
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"The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes."
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"Celebrate your success and stand strong when adversity hits, for when the storm clouds come in, the eagles soar while the small birds take cover."
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"It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it."
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"Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course."
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"A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable."
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"Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand."
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"One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak."
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"Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose."
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"The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around. That's all you need to know."
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"He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter."
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"A wounded deer leaps the highest."
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"When you believe that your problem is caused by someone or something else, you become your own victim."
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"The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach."
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