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Trouble, Troubles

If you want an open society, you have to put up with the chaos. – Bowyer Bell

Crises refine life. In them you discover what you are. – Allan K. Chalmers

Sooner or later comes a crisis in our affairs, and how we meet it determines our future happiness and success. Since the beginning of time, every form of life has been called upon to meet such crisis. – Robert Collier

Oh, troubles a ton, or a troubles an ounce, Or a trouble is what you make it. And it isnt the fact that youre hurt that counts, But only how did you take it. – E. V. Cooke

Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves. – William Davenant

I think were in trouble if people dont stop thinking everything thats going wrong is due to accidental opinions. – James Dye

Ive been in a lot of trouble and come out of it. I think it shows a lot of good character. – Stefan Edberg

Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

A crisis is a close encounter of the truthful kind. – Guy Finley

Calamity is mans true touchstone. – Beaumont and Fletcher

I have had many troubles, but the worst of them never came. – James Garfield

Some women like to sit down with trouble as if it were knitting. – Ellen Glasgow

If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I dont embrace trouble; thats as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say: meet it as a friend, for youll see a lot of it, and had better be on speaking terms with it. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due. – W. R. [William Ralph] Inge

Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience. You will find it a calamity. – Samuel Johnson

When is a crisis reached? When questions arise that cant be answered. – Ryszard Kapuscinski

There cant be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. – Henry Kissinger

It is only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a supreme being, that our calamities can be borne in the manner which becomes a man. – Henry Mackenzie

I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs. – John Major