Adversity Quote by Joel Osteen

“Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt said that. It is a quote I try to live by.…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.

— Marian Wright Edelman

“Every time you meet a situation, though you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the…

— Jay Carter

“Happiness is not a goal…it’s a by-product of a life well lived. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt”

— Various

“They didn’t realize that if you take away the possibility of pain, and suffering, failure…you also take away the possibility of happiness, success, and…

— D.W. Ulsterman

“As I focus on diligent joy, I also keep remembering a simple idea my friend Darcey told me once -- that all the sorrow…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“No man can say whether you are happy or not until you die, for no man knows misfortunes may overtake you or what misery…

— James Baldwin

“There was a helplessness to his joy, the same kind of helplessness as in that woman’s despair.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“There is no place or circumstance in this world that can depress You (the Self).”

— Dada Bhagwan

“Sometimes, self-pity was so ingrained in people that nothing could persuade them to take joy out of living.”

— Mary Balogh

“But if a person has never experienced true despair, she grows old never knowing how to evaluate where she is in life; never understanding…

— Banana Yoshimoto

No one likes to feel helpless. We find it psychologically unbearable and inside ourselves we may try to make ourselves part author of our…

— Susie Orbach