Adversity Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky

And why are you so firmly, so triumphantly, convinced that only the normal and the positive--in other words, only what is conducive to welfare--is…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Man reading ought to be a man intensely alive. The book ought to be a ball of light in his hands. ”

— Ezra Pound

“Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.”

— Ezra Pound

How life is imperfect and filled with suffering.? In fact, its quite the opposite, if youll bear through the first disheartening fact that nothing…

— Melchor Lim

The denial of suffering is, in fact a better definition of illness than its acceptance.

— M. Scott Peck

“One is always alone in suffering; the fact is depressing when one happens to be the sufferer, but it makes pleasure possible for the…

— Aldous Huxley

Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and comfort, but if we…

— Spencer W. Kimball

“All great myths and stories follow a similar pattern. The hero gets distracted and questions his power. He struggles and flounders until he is…

— Darren Main

In estimating the adversities of life, we would seldom have much reason to complain of the evils we suffer, did we understand the dangers…

— Norm MacDonald

“Every adversity is just another opportunity to excel a little more.”

— Michel Templet

“Friction is necessary. Ease of life leads to complacency and the atrophy of the human will and spirit. Within our struggles lives our strength,…

— Jason Versey

He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress.

— Helen Keller