Archives for: April 2007
04/18/07
Adversity brings knowledge, and knowledge wisdom.
-- Welsh proverb more »
04/16/07
A leaf that is destined to grow large is full of grooves and wrinkles at the start. Now if one has no patience and wants it smooth offhand like a willow leaf, there is trouble ahead.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe more »
04/13/07
Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity; a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quick sand to virtue.
-- Johann Friedrich von Schiller more »
04/11/07
The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is still a greater, which is the good man who comes to relieve it.
-- Oliver Goldsmith more »
04/09/07
Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
-- Seneca more »
04/06/07
The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
-- Seneca more »
04/04/07
I learn by going where I have to go.
-- Theodore Roethke more »
04/02/07
A spiritually optimistic point of view holds that the universe is woven out of a fabric of love. Everything that is happening is ultimately for the good if we're willing to face it head-on and use our adversities for soul growth.
-- Joan Borysenko, Ph.… more »
