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Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
Sep 10, 2025
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.
Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.
If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing!
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Fasting is, first and foremost, an exercise for identifying and managing adversity in all its forms. With faith, in full conscience, fasting calls women and men to an extra degree of self-awareness.
Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
Turning pro is a mindset. If we are struggling with fear, self-sabotage, procrastination, self-doubt, etc., the problem is, we’re thinking like amateurs. Amateurs don’t show up. Amateurs crap out. Amateurs let adversity defeat them. The pro thinks differently. He shows up, he does his work, he keeps on truckin’, no matter what.
I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
Sleep, riches, and health, to be truly enjoyed, must be interrupted.
Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.
One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
Adversity isn't an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It's part of our life.
Never take an elevator in city hall.
Hope will never be silent.
The eagle has no fear of adversity. We need to be like the eagle and have a fearless spirit of a conqueror!
He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.
Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.
You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.
If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.
What worries you, masters you.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.
Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.
Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
Paralyze resistance with persistence.
It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.
The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.
Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt faced adversities that, in their times, seemed impregnable. Great presidents overcome great odds.
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.
The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.
When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.
Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.
If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.