"No matter what your circumstances are, whether you are in prosperity or in adversity, you can learn from every person, transaction, and circumstance around you."
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"With every adversity comes a blessing because a shock acts as a reminder to oneself that we must not get stale in routine."
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"Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before."
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"How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most."
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"Experience teaches that the time to buy stocks is when their price is unduly depressed by temporary adversity. In other words, they should be bought on a bargain basis or not at all."
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"Affliction may be lasting, but it is not everlasting."
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"Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity."
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"Many successful people have found opportunities in failure and adversity that they could not recognize in more favorable circumstances."
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"There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time."
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"When jarred, unavoidably, by circumstance revert at once to yourself and don't lose the rhythm more than you can help. You'll have a better grasp of harmony if you keep going back to it."
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"I trust that God wouldn't give me more than I can handle. I just wish he didn't have such faith in me."
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"One can never truly savor success until first tasting adversity."
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"Yield thou not to adversity, but press on the more bravely."
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"One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph."
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"Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster children into strength and athletic proportion."
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"Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity."
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"Let us be brave in the face of adversity."
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"Adversity not only draws people together, but brings forth that beautiful inward friendship."
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"Forgiveness takes the burden of hate, guilt, and bitterness off your back and, with a lighter load, you can climb higher and faster, and be much happier in the process."
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"Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to [grow and] become successful. For that reason it makes sense to be grateful for adversities that help you grow, even if it is only in understanding and compassion for other's suffering."
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