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Showing posts with label difficulties. Show all posts
Showing posts with label difficulties. Show all posts
Monday, July 25, 2016
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
Monday, August 03, 2015
Post #1871
Hath fortune dealt thee ill cards? let wisdom make thee a good gamester. In a fair gale, every fool may sail, but wise behavior in a storm commends the wisdom of a pilot; to bear adversity with an equal mind is both the sign and glory of a brave spirit.
—Francis Quarles
—Francis Quarles
Saturday, October 26, 2013
Post #1385
Necessity, oftener than facility, has been the mother of invention; and the most prolific school of all has been the school of difficulty.
—Samuel Smiles
—Samuel Smiles
Friday, October 11, 2013
Post #1370
Fortune is the best school of courage when she is fraught with anger, in the same way as winds and tempest are the school of the sailorboy.
—Pietro Metastasio
—Pietro Metastasio
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Saturday, December 15, 2012
Post #1138
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
—William Ellery Channing
—William Ellery Channing
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Post #1082
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool
and unruffled under all circumstances.
—Thomas Jefferson
—Thomas Jefferson
Monday, March 19, 2012
Monday, February 13, 2012
Post #861
There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are asked to deal with what is most difficult.
—Rainer Maria Rilke
—Rainer Maria Rilke
Friday, December 23, 2011
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Post #555
Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.
—Euripides
—Euripides
Monday, January 24, 2011
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Post #438
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
—John Steinbeck
—John Steinbeck
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Post #282
Truly, it is in the darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.
—Eckhart von Hochheim
—Eckhart von Hochheim
Monday, April 26, 2010
Post #206
I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
—William Allen White
—William Allen White
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Post #205
A problem adequately stated is a problem well on it's way to being solved.
—R. Buckminster Fuller
—R. Buckminster Fuller
Friday, March 26, 2010
A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.
- dave
- El Paso, Texas, United States
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