"If you're going through hell, keep going." ~Winston Churchill

"We acquire the strength we have overcome." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits." ~Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, 1882

"Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are." ~Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

"You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you." ~Walt Disney

"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There is no education like adversity." ~Disraeli

"Sleep, riches, and health to be truly enjoyed must be interrupted." ~Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, Flower, Fruit, and Thorn

"Smooth seas do not skillful sailors make." ~African Proverb

"Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him." ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections

"Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive." ~Josephine Hart

"God brings men into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse them." ~John Aughey

"Everybody ought to do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice." ~William James

"Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us." ~Rainer Maria Rilke

"Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave." ~Rainer Maria Rilke

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