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“Adversity is a stimulus.”

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James Broughton, born on November 10, 1913, was an influential American poet known for his unique style and profound emotional expression in his poetry. His works have had a significant impact on the development of poetry in the United States. more

“If there is a purpose in life at all, there must be a purpose in suffering and in dying. But no man can tell another what this purpose is. Each must find out for himself, and must accept the responsibility that his answer prescribes. If he succeeds he will continue to grow in spite of all indignities.”

Ifs Men Purpose Suffering Grows Challenges Answers Responsibility Accepting Dying Succeed Adversity Spite Purpose Of Life Indignity

Author:Gordon Allport

“Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves, as he loves us better too. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This conflict with difficulty makes us acquainted with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial.”

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Author:Edmund Burke

“Don't be disquieted in time of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor.”

Self Challenges Dignity Adversity Firm Vigor Self Reliant Times Of Adversity

Author:Chiang Kai-shek

“Some people as a result of adversity are sadder, wiser, kinder, more human. Most of us are better, though, when things go better.”

People Humans Challenges Results Adversity Wiser Kinder

Author:Malcolm Forbes

“The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is still a greater, which is the good man who comes to relieve it.”

Men Stills Certain Universe Challenges Struggle Greater Objects Adversity Philosopher Good Man

Book:The Vicar of Wakefield

Source: The Vicar of Wakefield

“I think there's something really painful about your identity being entirely composed of ghosts. For me, I didn't want to be this kid whose Dominicanness was something caught utterly in the past, is an abstraction, the thing that I write about. Instead I wanted it to be, first and foremost, a thing that I lived.”

Thinking Want Writing Firsts Kids Wanted Past Identity Caught Painful Ghost Abstraction

Author:Junot Diaz

“It is not every calamity that is a curse, and early adversity is often a blessing. Surmounted difficulties not only teach, but hearten us in our future struggles.”

Challenges Teach Struggle Blessing Difficulty Adversity Curse Our Future Calamity

Author:James Sharp

“It is always in the midst, in the epicenter, of your troubles that you find serenity.”

Trouble Overcoming Adversity Midst Serenity Overcoming Adversity Inspirational Adversity Overcoming Hardship

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“We can bear the heavy load without asking to have it lightened. We can keep the sorrow now and endure it. We can go on in quiet peace without the new blessing which we thought so necessary. We have not been saved from the battle we shrank so from entering, but we have sought and have gained the victory.”

Goes On Bears Victory Sorrow Battle Blessing Quiet Asking Adversity Endure Heavy Saved Load Entering Heavy Loads

Author:J.R. Miller

“Braving obstacles and hardships is braver than retreat to tranquility.”

Adversity Obstacles Hardship Tranquility Retreat

Author:Khalil Gibran

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