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"The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil."
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"Disability is not a brave struggle or 'courage in the face of adversity.' Disability is an art. It's an ingenious way to live."
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"Adversity does not build character,it reveals it"
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"If things are tough, remember that every flower that ever bloomed had to go through a whole lot of dirt to get there. The almighty Father will use life's reverses to move you forward. So do not keep grieving about a bitter experience. The present is slipping by while you are regretting the past and worrying about the future. Regret will not prevent tomorrow's sorrows; it will only rob today of its strength."
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"This is the law of prosperity: When apparent adversity comes, be not cast down by it, but make the best of it, and always look forward for better things, for conditions more prosperous. To hold yourself in this attitude of mind is to set into operation subtle, silent, and irresistible forces that sooner or later will actualize in material form that which is today merely an idea. But ideas have occult power, and ideas, when rightly planted and rightly tended, are the seeds that actualize material conditions."
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"Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.'"
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"Never to suffer would have been never to have been blessed."
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"The key to winning is poise under stress."
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"If the lives of men were relieved of all need, hardship and adversity; if everything they took in hand were successful, they would be so swollen with arrogance that, though they might not burst, they would present the spectacle of unbridled folly-nay, they would go mad. And I may say, further, that a certain amount of care or pain or trouble is necessary for every man at all times. A ship without ballast is unstable and will not go straight."
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"Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?"
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"Learning to forgive is much more useful than merely picking up a stone and throwing it at the object of one's anger, the more so when the provocation is extreme. For it is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others."
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"The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken."
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"Stop telling it like it is and start telling it like you WANT it to be!"
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"Your attitude towards problems, difficulties, and adversities is the most important factor in overcoming them."
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"It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish."
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"If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?"
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"Drop all negative thoughts from the mind. Do not dwell on adversity but think plenty into everything, for there is power in the word. Meditate on the things you are doing as being already done - complete and perfect."
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"Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great."
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"In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present."
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