Adversity Quote by Shoghi Effendi

Life is filled with detours and dead ends, trials and challenges of every kind. Each of us has likely had times when distress, anguish,…

— Russell M. Nelson

Trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn't God's will for us to have, and…

— George Eliot

We've lost touch with our souls. We've been nourishing our minds, our relational skills, our theological knowledge, our psychological well-being, our physiological health... but…

— Mike Yaconelli

There is a tonic strength, in the hour of sorrow and affliction, in escaping from the world and society and getting back to the…

— William George Jordan

Suffering, once accepted, loses its edge, for the terror of it lessens, and what remains is generally far more manageable than we had imagined.

— Lesley Hazleton

Everything is happening as part of life.If we are stuck up with happiness and sorrows, we will be unable to face the other part.

— Sumesh Nair

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to…

— Anatole France

We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose dying: Everything!

— Anonymous

The soul gives us resilience - an essential quality since we constantly have to rebound from hardship.

— Wynton Marsalis

“The pain of losing something precious - be it happiness or material wealth – can be forgotten over time. But our missed opportunities never…

— Sabahattin Ali

The soul's bliss and suffering are bound together.

— Jane Kenyon

It is not so much the greatness of our troubles, as the littleness of our spirit, which makes us complain.

— Hudson Taylor