Adversity Quote by Jean Webster

Hardship And Misfortune May Be Unpleasant, But They Can Sometimes Have A Beneficial Effect On The Character, Especially When People Fail To Appreciate The…

— Pacifiersucker

“Happiness comes from righteous living and the development of a noble character. You can observe this by noticing that people who are truly happy…

— Helen B. Andelin

“Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of earth is multiform. Overreaching the wide horizon as the rainbow, its hues are as various as the hues…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“How many people we know who sour their lives, who ruin all that is sweet and beautiful by explosive tempers, who destroy their poise…

— James Allen

Life has its pains and evils-its bitter disappointments; but like a good novel and in healthful length of days, there is infinite joy in…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

Happiness has never been a sad character to anyone,its just a matter of how you aproach it

— Anonymous

Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful dispensation as replete with…

— Lydia Sigourney

When you describe the miserable and unfortunate, and want to make the reader feel pity, try to be somewhat colder - that seems to…

— Anton Chekhov

There are seeds of happiness in every soul. Our mental attitude and dispositions constitute the environment in which these seeds germinate. There is as…

— David O. McKay

That’s what’s so gorgeous about humanity. It doesn’t matter how bleak our daily lives are, we still fight for the light. I think that’s…

— Mary Karr

Man little knows what calamities are beyond his patience to bear till he tries them; as in ascending the heights of ambition, which look…

— Oliver Goldsmith

Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes like a fever. Courage spreads in the face of tyranny.

— Nancy Gibbs