Echoes

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

It is difficulties that show what men are.

So remember this principle when something threatens to cause you pain: the thing itself was no misfortune at all; to endure it and prevail is great good fortune.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Character is the virtue of hard times.

There is no man in the world free from trouble or anguish, though he were King or Pope.

Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.

Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way in which he takes up his cross, gives him ample opportunity — even under the most difficult circumstances — to add a deeper meaning to his life. It may remain brave, dignified and unselfish. Or in the bitter fight for self-preservation he may forget his human dignity and become no more than an animal. Here lies the chance for a man either to make use of or to forgo the opportunities of attaining the moral values that a difficult situation may afford him. And this decides whether he is worthy of his sufferings or not.

Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is.

It is good for us that we sometimes have sorrows and adversities, for they often make a man lay to heart that he is only a stranger and sojourner, and may not put his trust in any worldly thing. It is good that we sometimes endure contradictions, and are hardly and unfairly judged, when we do and mean what is good. For these things help us to be humble, and shield us from vain-glory.

What cannot be eschewed must be embraced

If you're going through hell, keep going.

Things are not so painful and difficult of themselves, but our weakness or cowardice makes them so.

Through endurance we conquer.

For in all adversity of fortune, the most unfortunate kind of misfortune is to have been happy.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

He who endures, conquers.

In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal.

He who remembers the evils he has undergone, and those that have threatened him, and the slight causes that have changed him from one state to another, prepares himself in that way for future changes and for recognizing his condition. The life of Caesar has no more to show us than our own; an emperor's or an ordinary man's, it is still a life subject to all human accidents.

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.