Trying times are times to try. The hammer shatters the glass but it forges the steel.
Adversity Quotes
Adversity brings knowledge, and knowledge wisdom.
Adversity and loss make a man wise.
The true way to soften one’s troubles is to solace those of others.
If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can’t help but learn.
It is a great art to laugh at your own misfortune.
In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.
God sends burdens, and shoulders, too.
In time of prosperity friends will be plenty; In time of adversity not one in twenty.
I have had a disturbing dream in which I break through a cave wall near Nag Hammadi and discover urns full of ancient Coptic scrolls. As I unfurl the first scroll, a subscription card to some Gnostic exercise magazine flutters out.
