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At times, challenges hit with the force of a roaring, rushing waterfall. The true test, however, is whether you can put your arms up and enjoy the feel of the water. – Aviva Kaufman

The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Kavanagh, 1849

When you forget to take the sail at all, then the wind is constantly in your favour both ways. But there! this world is only a probation, and man was born to trouble as the sparks fly upward. – Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), 1889

Past and to come, seems best; things present, worse. – William Shakespeare, Henry IV

During the darkest indigo midnight, yet will countless stars blossom. – Dr.SunWolf, professorsunwolf.com

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. – William Hazlitt

Better to lose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles. – Maltbie D. Babcock

Aversion is a form of bondage. We are tied to what we hate or fear. That is why, in our lives, the same problem, the same danger or difficulty, will present itself over and over again in various prospects, as long as we continue to resist or run away from it instead of examining it and solving it. РPata̱jali

Your heart has been sore wounded too. Dear Light, love shall cherish you, till you again look on life with happy eyes. – Byron Caldwell Smith, letter to Kate Stephens

Strange how we decorate pain. – Margaret Atwood

Anything, anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumbles and caresses one and never hurts quite enough. – Jean-Paul Sartre

I bear a little more than I can bear. – Elinor Hoyt Wylie

Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom. – Coventry Patmore

May you get what you wish for. – Old Chinese curse

The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty — not marble floors and foundations. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact. – Fyodor Dostoevsky

Watch a man in times of… adversity to discover what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off. – Lucretius, On the Nature of Things

When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. – Henry David Thoreau

Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin