Adversity

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fireâ€”then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience. Life is inconvenient. Life is lumpy. Learn to separate the inconveniences from the real problems. You will live longer. – Sigmund Wollman, quoted by Robert Fulghum, Uh-Oh, 1991

We have no right to ask when sorrow comes, “Why did this happen to me?” unless we ask the same question for every moment of happiness that comes our way. – Author Unknown

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work. – Harry Golden

Don’t let a bad day make you feel like you have a bad life. – Author Unknown

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies. – Erich Fromm

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave. – Henry Ward Beecher

If you want to forget all your other troubles, wear too tight shoes. – The Houghton Line, November 1965

Sometimes the littlest things in life are the hardest to take. You can sit on a mountain more comfortably than on a tack. – Author Unknown

Bad is never good until worse happens. – Danish Proverb

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. – Walt Disney

We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them. – Charles C. West

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem. – Theodore Rubin

Every path hath a puddle. – George Herbert, “Jacula Prudentum”

A bad grade is only one letter in the Essay of life. – Lee Drake

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. – African Proverb

There is no education like adversity. – Disraeli

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. – Michel de Montaigne

Adversity introduces a man to himself. – Author Unknown

If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim. – Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. – John Steinbeck