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Welcome to these Adversity Quotes from my large collection of Love Quotes and Sayings. Please enjoy these Quotes about Adversity and Love.
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
If we did not sometimes taste of adversity,
prosperity would not be so welcome.
- Anne Bradstreet
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Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
Our mettle is tested by storms,
not by calm.
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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles
possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
- Albert Schweitzer
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Friendship that flows from the heart
cannot be frozen by adversity,
as the water that flows from the spring
cannot congeal in winter.
- James Fenimore Cooper
Be open to the goodness of life -
even in the midst of apparent adversity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Adversity can crush our spirit -
or strengthen it - it is our choice.
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Comfort and prosperity have never enriched
the world as much as adversity has.
- Billy Graham
In times of great stress or adversity,
it's always best to keep busy,
to plow your anger and your energy
into something positive.
- Lee Iacocca
Today, when the winds of adversity blow strong,
redirect their force into the
service of your highest intention.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True friendship is a plant of slow growth,
and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity
before it is entitled to the appellation.
- George Washington
God sometimes does try to the uttermost
those whom he wishes to bless.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Life is truly known only to those who suffer,
lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
- Anais Nin
Protect your vision.
Prevail over adversity.
Persevere in the midst of turmoil.
Passionately act upon your convictions.
Purposely walk into the day.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Anonymous
The experience of democracy is like
the experience of life itself -
always changing, infinite in its variety,
sometimes turbulent
and all the more valuable
for having been tested by adversity.
- Jimmy Carter
When true friends meet in adverse hour,
'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower.
A watery way an instant seen,
The darkly closing clouds between.
- Sir Walter Scott
The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.
- Thomas Jefferson
True love is a process of co-creation
in which neither feels ownership or superiority.
Jealousy is a highly destructive force
for love and relationships.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Play with life, laugh with life,
dance lightly with life,
and smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Guys are like stars, there are millions of them,
but only one to make your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
Every true love song, by its very nature, is a duet.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
Just because it's true, I say as often as I can
in as many ways as I can form, "I sure love you."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
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All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
When we find someone whose weirdness
is compatible with ours,
we join up with them and fall into
mutually satisfying weirdness -
and call it love - true love.
- Robert Fulghum.
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
There are trivial truths and there are great truths.
The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
- Niels Bohr
To thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
True love has no limits.
- Anonymous
True love means putting the other person before yourself,
and honoring the relationship above all.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only those who have learned the power
of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins
Every loving thought is true.
Everything else is an appeal for healing and help,
regardless of the form it takes.
- A Course In Miracles
It costs you nothing to make another happy -
and you gain your true self through the act of spreading joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true delight is in the finding out,
rather than in the knowing.
- Isaac Asimov
Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The course of true love never did run smooth.
- William Shakespeare
In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee
Smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing can bring a real sense of security
into the home except true love.
- Billy Graham
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
- Alexander Pope
True believers just don't see things the way they are,
because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore.
- Philip Caputo
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
Women are like teabags.
We don't know our true strength
until we are in hot water!
- Eleanor Roosevelt
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If evil be spoken of you
and it be true, correct yourself,
if it be a lie, laugh at it.
- Epictetus
A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything deep is also simple
and can be reproduced simply
as long as its reference
to the whole truth is maintained.
But what matters is not what is witty
but what is true.
- Albert Schweitzer
Great relationships begin with two people who are each
self confident and who come to each other with the openness
to see and accept the other as a unique and wonderful person.
If there is true love and an alignment of fundamental values,
choose to join your life with your new partner
and vow never to criticize their nature -
the essence that makes them uniquely themselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common.
Celebrate it every day.
- Anonymous
The True Path is the path on which
there is no coming and no going.
- Traditional Zen Koan
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
True friends are appreciative and never demanding.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only one who devotes himself to a cause
with his whole strength and soul
can be a true master.
For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
- Albert Einstein
We seek opinions that are likely to
support what we want to be true.
- Thomas Gilovich
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
We censor our actions, but
our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True love is like ghosts,
which everyone talks about and few have seen.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The true sign of intelligence
is not knowledge but imagination.
- Albert Einstein
'Tis strange - but true;
for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction.
- Lord Byron
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