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“In any event, the sloppy and fatuous nature of American good will can never be relied upon to deal with hard problems. These have been dealt with, when they have been dealt with at all, out of necessity—and in political terms, anyway, necessity means concessions made in order to stay on top.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

“Life keeps throwing me stones.
And I keep finding the diamonds...”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job

“Be grateful for all ordeals, they are the shortest way to the Divine.”
― The Mother, Words of the Mother - II

“The challenge is never based on the size of the obstacle that stands before me. Rather, it is dictated by the degree of faith that rests within me.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“When all things go bad, do not think so badly about all things, instead think about the things that made all things bad and change something!”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah,

“Patience and Forgiveness are at the heart of A warrior's success, they help engender necessary intervals of space and time to evaluate difficult encounters.”
― Soke Behzad Ahmadi, Dirty Fighting : Lethal Okinawan Karate

“We should learn from flowers, earthly stars which spend their entire lives shining, shining and growing despite all the difficulties they encounter. They know how to listen and understand the whispers of time, for it is an eternal friend that teaches the importance of friendship and sparkling hope.”
― Nur Bedeir

“Human being may fail you, but God will never forsake thee.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“He framed a question inwardly to his vanity: 'Will this be tougher than I thought?”
― Natsume Sōseki, Light and Darkness

“For fortune having hitherto seconded him in his designs, made him resolute and firm in his opinions, and the boldness of his temper raised a sort of passion in him for surmounting difficulties; as if it were not enough to be always victorious in the field, unless places and seasons and nature herself submitted to him.”
― Plutarch, Plutarch's Lives: Volume II

“Why do you want to run away from reality?”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“He seemed to become aware of a dark, imponderable force pushing him left when he meant to go right or pulling him back when he meant to go forward. Until that moment, he
would have felt certain that his actions had never been subject to restraint
by others. He had been certain that he did whatever he did of his own
accord, that everything he said he intended to say.”
― Natsume Sōseki, Light and Darkness

“Don´t let your work define you. But let you define what works for you to defy and refine you even more.”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job

“I rather choose to go through what will make me humble than to go for what will increase my pride to a level without limit”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“Consequences need not be the obstacles that I dread, but the direction that I need.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“In suffering, we resurrect our souls.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“The inner peace can block any windy weather.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Seek the gold in any situation.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Difficulties & Challenges become our strength when we focus the goal.”
― Gaurav GRV Sharma

“If human help fails, God will never forsake thee.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Challenges will come, but success is proof of challenges conquered and difficulties overcome.”
― Chinonye J. Chidolue

“We are born with the innate capacity to express empathy. Experiencing our own cuts and bruises, encountering our own difficulties and disappointments, expands our cognitive world and rouses the universal desire to understand and comfort other people in pain.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“The very places that we presume God not to be are the very places that are filled with His footprints and littered with His fingerprints.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“my family and the Old Doctor’s family have had more than our share of ups and downs. And if we folks have a motto, it’s this: ‘Don’t holler—smile and bide your time.�� We’ve survived a passel of things that way, smiling and biding our time, and we’ve gotten to be experts at surviving”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“It would be an existence rife with difficulties... but of a pleasurable kind, difficulties they could take pride in, possess, value, as one would a family heirloom.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“Every new situation requires new strategy.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“If people listen to music and dance every day, they find happiness and sacred solutions to any problem.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“In greatest doom, you no soul can save you.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Don’t complain about difficult situations. They contain in them the motivation to succeed.”
― Chinonye J. Chidolue

“We have to begin giving them the whole truth about premarital sex and the difficulties it can cause.”
― James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future