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“place where man laughs, sings, picks flowers, chases butterflies and pets birds, makes love with maidens, and plays with children. Here he spontaneously reveals his nature, the base as well as the noble. Here also he buries his sorrows and difficulties and cherishes his ideals and hopes. It is in the garden that men discover themselves. Indeed one discovers not only his real self but also his ideal self?he returns to his youth. Inevitably the garden is made the scene of man's merriment, escapades, romantic abandonment, spiritual awakening or the perfection of his finer self.”

“The true Christian reaction to suffering and sorrow is not the attitude of self-pity, fatalism or resentment; it is the spirit which takes life's difficulties as a God given opportunity, and regards its troubles as a sacred trust, and wears the thorns as a crown.”

Self Christian Joy Spirit Suffering Opportunity Given Attitude Trouble Sorrow Difficulty Regard Sacred Reactions Pity Resentment Crowns Thorns Self Pity Fatalism Given Opportunity

Author:James Stewart

“The Savior knows the difficulties of the way and can guide us through whatever sorrows and disappointments may come.”

Knows Way May Sorrow Difficulty Disappointment Guides Savior

Author:Carole M. Stephens

“The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.”

Sorrow Discovery Difficulty Adversity Invention Length Hardship Great Inventions

Book:Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct

Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct

“A life without problems or limitations or challenges--life without "opposition in all things," as Lehi phrased it (2 Nephi 2:11)--would paradoxically but in very fact be less rewarding and less ennobling than one which confronts--even frequently confronts--difficulty and disappointment and sorrow.”

Facts Problem Challenges Sorrow All Things Difficulty Disappointment Limitation Opposition

Author:Jeffrey R. Holland

“A blessed thing it is to have a friend; one human soul whom we can trust utterly; who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults; who will speak the honest truth to us, while the world flatters us to our face, and laughs at us behind our back; who will give us counsel and reproof in a day of prosperity and self-conceit; but who, again, will comfort and encourage us in days of difficulty and sorrow, when the world leaves us alone to fight our own battle as we can.”

Source: The Works of Charles Kingsley

“If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.”

Ifs Waiting Courage Forever Our Lives Missing Sorrow Difficulty Sympathy Enjoy Life Condolences Waiting For Forever

Author:Dirk Benedict

“Happiness is sorrow; sorrow is happiness. There is happiness in difficulty; difficulty in happiness. Even though the ways we feel are different, they are not really different, in essence they are the same. This is the true understanding transmitted from Buddha to us.”

Way Feels Different Understanding Sorrow Difficulty Buddhist True Understanding

Author:Shunryu Suzuki

“Give me ... a compassionate heart, quickly moved to grieve for the woes of others and to active pity for them, even as our Lord Jesus Christ beheld our poverty and hasted to help us. Give me grace ever to alleviate the crosses and difficulties of those around me, and never to add to them; teach me to be a consoler in sorrow, to take thought for the stranger, the widow, and the orphan; let my charity show itself not in words only but in deed and truth.”

“Joys and sorrows are time-born and cannot last. Therefore, do not be perturbed by these. The greater the difficulties and obstructions, the more intense will be your endeavor to cling to His feet and the more will your prayer increase from within. And when the time is ripe, you will gain mastery over this power.”

Wisdom Lasts Spiritual Joy Born Prayer Greater Feet Sorrow Gains Difficulty Increase Intense Endeavor Mastery Our Prayers Ripe Obstruction Joys And Sorrows

Author:Anandamayi Ma

“There is no joy for someone who has no sorrow. There is no pleasure for the one who has no patience No bliss for someone with no misery and no rest for the one with no fatigue. When someone is a little tired, he has long rest. When he endures the difficulty of steadfastness for a time, that leads him to eternal life. All that the people of eternal bliss are in is steadfastness for a time.”

People Littles Long Wisdom Joy Pleasure Sorrow Eternal Difficulty Tired Misery Endure Bliss Islamic Fatigue Eternal Life Steadfastness No Patience

Author:Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

“For in prosperity a man is often puffed up with pride, whereas tribulations chasten and humble him through suffering and sorrow. In the midst of prosperity the mind is elated, and in prosperity a man forgets himself; in hardship he is forced to reflect on himself, even though he be unwilling. In prosperity a man often destroys the good he has done; amidst difficulties he often repairs what he long since did in the way of wickedness.”

Men Way Mind Long Done Suffering Forget Pride Sorrow Difficulty Prosperity Humble Midst Hardship Wickedness Unwilling Tribulation Forget Him

Author:Alfred the Great

“"Don't worry too much about how spiritually poor you are_God sees that,but for you it is expected to trust in God and pray to Him as best you can,never to fall into despair and to struggle according to your strength.If you ever begin to think you are spiritually_"well off"_then you can know for sure that you aren't!True spiritual life,even on the most elementary level,is always accompanied by suffering and difficulties.Therefore you should rejoice in all your difficulties and sorrows."”

Ifs Thinking Knows Life Should Wells Truth Spiritual Suffering Fall Poor Levels Worry Struggle Too Much Praying Sorrow Despair Difficulty Expected Trust In God Rejoice Spiritual Life

Author:Seraphim Rose

“We face so many challenges in life: poverty, distress, humiliation, the struggle for justice, persecutions, the difficulty of daily conversion, the effort to remain faithful to our call to holiness, and many others. But if we open the door to Jesus and allow him to be part of our lives, if we share our joys and sorrows with him, then we will experience the peace and joy that only God, who is infinite love, can give.”

Source: The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation

“The things we hope in sustain us during our daily walk. They uphold us through trials, temptations, and sorrow. Everyone has experienced discouragement and difficulty. Indeed, there are times when the darkness may seem unbearable. It is in these times that the divine principles of the restored gospel we hope in can uphold us and carry us until, once again, we walk in the light.”

May Light Seems Walks Principles Darkness Divine Sorrow Difficulty Trials Temptation Unbearable Discouragement

Author:Dieter F. Uchtdorf