“No medicine is more valuable , none more efficacious, none better suited to the cure of our temporal ills than a friend to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble, and with whom we may share happiness in time of joy.” MayRealHappinessJoyTurnsFriendshipCompassionTroubleShareEmpathyAdversityMedicineValuableHappyCuresHard TimesHardshipSympathyReal FriendsConsolationTough TimesInspirational FriendshipTimes Of TroubleLoyal FriendFaithful Friends Author:Aelred of Rievaulx
“When you see evil do not form ideas that are in the likeness of that evil; do not think of the evil as bad, but try to understand the forces that are back of that evil—forces that are good in themselves, though misdirected in their present state. By trying to understand the nature of the power that is back of evil or adversity, you will not form bad ideas, and therefore will feel no bad effects from experiences that may seem undesirable. At the same time, you will think your own thought about the experiences, thereby developing the power of the master mind.” ThinkingFeelsTryingMindMayIdeasStatesSeemsFormEvilForceEffectsMastersAdversityDevelopingBad IdeasUndesirable Book:Your Forces and How to Use Them Source: Your Forces and How to Use Them
“Surely the mischief of hypocrisy can never be enough inveighed against. When religion is in request, it is the chief malady of the church, and numbers die of it; though because it is a subtle and inward evil, it be little perceived. It is to be feared there are many sick of it, that look well and comely in God's outward worship, and they may pass well in good weather, in times of peace; but days of adversity are days of trial.” WellsLooksMayLittlesEnoughDiesEvilChurchNumbersWorshipSickAdversityTrialsWeatherChiefsHypocrisySubtleInwardRequestMischiefMaladyGood Weather Author:Joseph Hall
“There is an elasticity in the human mind, capable of bearing much, but which will not show itself, until a certain weight of affliction be put upon it; its powers may be compared to those vehicles whose springs are so contrived that they get on smoothly enough when loaded, but jolt confoundedly when they have nothing to bear.” MindHumansMayEnoughShowsCertainBearsCapableSpringWeightAdversityHuman MindVehicleAfflictionLoadedElasticity Book:Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan