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  Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1896). “Oldtown folks. Sam Lawson's Oldtown fireside stories”

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  Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

  Satchel Paige

  Thanksgiving, Thank You, Baseball

  Quoted in Deirdre Mullane, Words to Make My Dream Children Live: A Book of African American Quotations (1995)

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• I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Love, Motivational, Strength

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• Coming to terms with my feelings of worthlessness isn't always a bad time, but it's rarely a good one.

  Dov Davidoff

  Feelings, Term, Worthlessness

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• If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

  T. S. Eliot

  Adversity, Hard Times, Tough Times

  " Valerie Eliot's death deprives poetry of its strongest advocate" by David Morley, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2012.

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• Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.

  Saint Augustine

  Motivational, Faith, Time

  "Sermons to the People". Book by Augustine of Hippo (Sermon 80:8),

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• A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

  Duke Ellington

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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  In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

  Lee Iacocca

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.16, Bantam

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• The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Motivational, Friendship, Positive

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When someone we love is having difficulty and is giving us a bad time, it's better to explore the cause than to criticize the action.

  Zig Ziglar

  Family, Friends, Moving

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Nov 02, 2014

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• In bad times, the rich usually get richer.

  Stuart Wilde

  Inspirational, Business, Challenges

  Stuart Wilde (1998). “The Trick to Money is Having Some”, p.18, Hay House, Inc

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• The bottom line is that I'm an actor, so when somebody pitches me a great part, it's a no-brainer. You never know what it's gonna be like, in terms of the actual experience. You can be really excited about a part that can turn out shitty, you can have a bad time, there's a bad egg or two or three, in the bunch, or the producers are weird, or something like that.

  Kathy Bates

  Eggs, Two, Actors

  "Kathy Bates Talks AMERICAN HORROR STORY: COVEN, Working with other Talented Women, Her Cruel Character, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 4, 2014.

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• There are good and bad times in a relationship. You start to understand more about how a relationship can go awry when two people spend too much time together. They tend to overlook all of the red flags that pop up early because they want to make it work and they want to believe it's right.

  Michael Ealy

  Believe, Two, Up Early

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm usually busy - if you call me at the house, I get about four phone calls there a year - I'm usually running around the house with a pen in my mouth holding onto something, folding it, or doing something to it, and it's always a bad time.

  Henry Rollins

  Running, Phones, Years

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• The only time you have is the where and when of right now. There will always be good times, bad times, hard times, and complete disasters. However, there is no other option but to be where you are, when you are. That is a universal truth for everyone. The important thing is how you respond, what you decide to do, and when you decide to do it.

  Chris Murray

  Hard Times, Important, Good Times

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• Sometimes it's not catastrophic. Sometimes you only come to the bottom of your coffee cup. Sometimes you have a good day. No one wants to know. No one wants to tell you about theirs either. You might somehow take it. Turn it against them. See the flaw. You always tell them the whole thing sucks. It keeps you alive. They figure if you're out there having a rotten time, everything's fine and you're doing your part. No one will ever try to take your bad times away from you but they'll come swarming for your happiness.

  Henry Rollins

  Coffee, Good Day, Trying

  Henry Rollins (2005). “Roomanitarian”, 2.13.61

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• Sometimes great tunes happen to bad times, and when the bad time is over, not all the tunes get to move on with you.

  Rob Sheffield

  Moving, Tunes, Sometimes

  Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.198, Crown Archetype

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• Dad, I wrote. I'm with Alice. Edward's in trouble. You can ground me when I get back. I know it's a bad time. So sorry. Love you so much. Bella.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Sorry, Dad, Love You

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• The comments I most appreciate come from ordinary readers who've happened on one of my books at some time of stress in their lives, and who actually credit the book with helping them through a bad time. It's happened a few times in forty years.

  Fred Saberhagen

  Stress, Book, Years

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• As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate. Hope is the thing that is left us in a bad time.

  E. B. White

  Hope, Time, Women

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.126, Cornell University Press

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• We're none of us quite so sure of our place in the world that we can't be rocked off our feet by bad times. It's the getting back up again that counts. Not that you fall, but getting back up again counts for more in the long run.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Running, Fall, Getting Back Up

  Mercedes Lackey (2010). “Intrigues: Book Two of the Collegium Chronicles (A Valdemar Novel)”, p.18, Penguin

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• The best advice I've ever been given is being handed a Bible. That's the blueprint for marriage that we go by, and that's what our marriage is grounded in. We also have other married couples who are examples in our lives. My parents have been married over 40 years, and both sets of grandparents for over 65 years. When you see couples in long-term relationships and you see them go through good times and bad times, you realize it's about being committed enough and loving your partner enough to hang in there regardless.

  Candace Cameron

  Couple, Years, Long

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• I was very famous as a young man and I celebrated both the good and bad times with drinking.

  Glenn Hughes

  Drinking, Men, Young

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• It's so hard being goth. You have to have a bad time everywhere.

  Clint Catalyst

  Goth, Hard

  Clint Catalyst (2000). “Cottonmouth Kisses”, Manic d Press

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• The inside jokes weren't jokes anymore. They had become stories. Nobody brought up the bad names or the bad times. And nobody felt sad as long as we could postpone tomorrow with more nostalgia.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Names, Long, Stories

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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