Misfortune comes to all men.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man
But for one man who can stand prosperity
There are a hundred that will stand adversity
Thomas Carlyle
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When a man gets to despair
He knows that all his thinking will never get him out
He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God
Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God
That which he cannot gain for himself.
Oswald Chambers
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Suffering has always been with us
Does it really matter in what form it comes?
All that matters is how we bear it
And how we fit it into our lives
Etty Hillesum
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Adversity is the state
In which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself
Being especially free of admirers then
Samuel Johnson
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Things don’t go wrong and break your heart
So you can become bitter and give up
They happen to break you down and build you up
So you can be all that you were intended to be
Charles Jones
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What really counts
Is not the immediate act of courage or of valor
But those who bear the struggle day in and day out
John F. Kennedy

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