Hard Times Quotes - Page 6

• Sooner or later, everyone's story has an unfortunate event or two...The solution, of course, is to stay as far away from the world as possible and lead a safe, simple life.

  Daniel Handler

  Inspirational Life, Live Life, Adversity

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• Just when all seems to be going right, challenges often come in multiple doses applied simultaneously. When those trials are not consequences of your disobedience, they are evidence that the Lord feels you are prepared to grow more. He therefore gives you experiences that stimulate growth, understanding, and compassion which polish you for your everylasting benefit.

  Richard G. Scott

  Inspirational, Sympathy, God

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• But where, after all, would be the poetry of the sea were there no wild waves?

  Joshua Slocum

  Uplifting, Sea, Tough Times

  Joshua Slocum, Applewood Books (CRT) (2006). “Sailing Alone Around the World”, p.193, Applewood Books

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• You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

  Epicurus

  Boyfriend, Being Happy, Courage

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• I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

  Dr. Seuss

  Life, Positive, Success

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• Dark clouds become heaven's flowers when kissed by light.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Flower, Dark, Clouds

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.424, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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  A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.

  Washington Irving

  Best Friend, Family, Mothers Day

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• what matters most is how well you walk through the fire

  Charles Bukowski

  Motivational, Uplifting, I Hate You

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.505, Canongate Books

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• Suffering is a call to conversion: it reminds us of our frailty and vulnerability.

  Pope Francis

  Suffering, Frailty, Conversion

  Pope Francis @Pontifex, twitter.com. March 24, 2015.

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• I should be grateful for the tough times because Allah chose me, thought I was good enough to go through it.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Grateful, Tough Times, Good Enough

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• The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It’s the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun.

  Napoleon Hill

  Motivational, Strength, Success

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• Character produces endurance and persistence when the going gets tough, and life truly is an endurance race, not a sprint.

  Zig Ziglar

  Character, Persistence, Race

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Sep 29, 2014

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• Every storm runs out of rain, just like every dark night turns into day.

  Gary Allan

  Running, Rain, Dark

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• When life caves in, you do not need reasons -- you need comfort. You do not need some answers -- you need someone. And Jesus does not come to us with an explanation -- He comes to us with His presence.

  Bob Benson

  Jesus, Comfort, Doe

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• The ibtilaa' (testing) of the believer is like medicine for him. It cures him from illness. Had the illness remained it would destroy him or diminish his reward and level (in the hereafter). The tests and the trials extract these illnesses from him and prepare him for the perfect reward and the highest of degrees (in the life to come).

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Medicine, Perfect, Degrees

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• Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.

  Timothy Keller

  Fire, Suffering, Walks

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.16, Penguin

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  If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

  Robert Fulghum

  Life, Positive, Encouraging

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door”, p.146, Ivy Books

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• In heaven we shall see that we had not one trial too many.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Heaven, Trials

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• The man who does not learn to wait upon the Lord and have his thoughts molded by Him will never possess that steady purpose and calm trust, which is essential to the exercise of wise influence upon others, in times of crisis and difficulty.

  Dixon Edward Hoste

  Trust, Wise, Christian

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• So often we think that Allah only tests us with hardships, but this isn't true. Allah also tests with ease. He tests us with na`im (blessings) and with the things we love, and it is often in these tests that so many of us fail. We fail because when Allah gives us these blessings, we unwittingly turn them into false idols in the heart.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Heart, Blessing, Thinking

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• Character isn't who you are when life goes your way. Character is who you really are when the bottom falls out.

  LeCrae

  Fall, Character, Way

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• Heard once that in dire times when you need a sign, that's when they appear.

  Drake

  Needs, Heard

  Song: Too Much, 2013

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• When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important. It's hard to understand failure when you're going through it, but in the grand scheme of things it's good to fall down - not because you're drunk and not near stairs.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Fall, Drunk, Tough Times

  "Seriously...I'm Kidding". Book by Ellen DeGeneres, October 4, 2011.

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• The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing...that is a friend who cares.

  Henri Nouwen

  Friendship, True Friend, Grief

  "Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life". Book by Henri Nouwen, 1974.

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