When you get to your wits end, you will find, God lives there. – Author Unknown
When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile. – Author Unknown
Fall seven times, stand up eight. – Japanese Proverb
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. – Harriet Beecher Stowe
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning. – Ivy Baker Priest
Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement – and we will make the goal. – Jerome Fleishman
A bend in the road is not the end of the road… unless you fail to make the turn. – Author Unknown
Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known. – Garrison Keillor
I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. – Agatha Christie
Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out. – Edwin Markham
Adversity is the first path to truth. – Lord Byron
The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter. – Author Unknown
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience. – Author Unknown
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant. – Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Satires
God uses suffering as a whetstone, to make men sharp with. – Henry Ward Beecher
Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us. – Rainer Maria Rilke
God gave burdens, also shoulders. – Yiddish Proverb
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them. – Bernard M. Baruch
I have woven a parachute out of everything broken. – William Stafford
If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. – Latin Proverb
