Becoming yourself Quote by Pacifiersucker

Hardships make us strong. Problems give birth to wisdom. Sorrows cultivate compassion. Those who have suffered the most will become the happiest.

— Anonymous

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

— W. Somerset Maugham

For certain people, misfortune is a beacon that lights up the dark and baser sides of social life.

— Honore de Balzac

The effect of great and inevitable misfortune is to elevate those souls which it does not deprive of all virtue.

— Francois Guizot

A little misery, at times, makes one appreciate happiness more.

— L. Frank Baum

I believe, indeed, that it is more laudable to suffer great misfortunes than to do great things.

— Stanisław I Leszczyński

Moreover, nothing is so rare as to see misfortune fairly portrayed; the tendency is either to treat the unfortunate person as though catastrophe were…

— Simone Weil

Individual misfortunes give rise to the general good; so that the more individual misfortunes exist, the more all is fine.

— Voltaire

“There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. To have lost one's self-respect: that is what unhappiness is.…

— Thomas Mann

Some people bear great burdens with grace; others suffer minor inconveniences in misery.

— Michael J. Knowles

In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will reap the advantage of it.

— Plautus

contemplating the misfortunes of others does not lighten one's own trouble but instead adds to it.

— Mignon G. Eberhart