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Philosophical literature

What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Twilight of the Idols · 1889

★ 7.7

Philosophical literature

Life always gets harder toward the summit-the cold increases, responsibility increases.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The Antichrist · 1895

★ 7.4

Novel · Coming of age story

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.

Louisa May Alcott

Little Women · 1868

★ 5.5

Play · Comedy (play)

Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head. And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything.

William Shakespeare

As You Like It · 1616

★ 5.5

What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.

Charles Bukowski

1994

★ 5.3

The way to bliss lies not on beds of down, And he that had no cross deserves no crown.

Francis Quarles

1621

★ 5.2

It is not what a man outwardly has or wants that constitutes the happiness or misery of him. Nakedness, hunger, distress of all kinds, death itself have been cheerfully suffered, when the heart was right. It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.

Chartism · 1840

★ 5.2

Personal journal

Difficulties are just things to overcome after all.

Ernest Shackleton

1908

★ 5.2

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift.

The Uses of Sorrow · 2006

★ 5.2

It is not the prize that can make us happy; it is not even the winning of the prize....[It is] the struggle, the long hot hour of the honest fight.... There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.

Anthony Trollope

Orley Farm · 1862

★ 4.3

He said not "Thou shalt not be tempested, thou shall not be travailed, thou shalt not be diseased"; but he said, "Thou shalt not be overcome."

Julian of Norwich

1413

★ 3.9

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

Publilius Syrus

Sententiae · 43 BC

★ 3.8

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.

64

★ 3.8

A great pilot can sail even when his canvas is rent.

65

★ 3.8

Scripture · Religious literature

In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

John 16:33 · 90

★ 3.8

Presocratic fragment · Fragment · Philosophical literature

It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

★ 3.8

Allegory · Religious literature

He that is down needs fear no fall He that is low, no pride; He that is humble ever shall Have God to be his guide.

The Pilgrim's Progress from this World to that Which is to Come · 1678

★ 3.7

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

The Song of the Lark · 1915

★ 3.7

Prosperity doth best discover Vice; But Adversity doth best discover Vertue.

1625

★ 3.6

The wise and tragic sense of life. By this I mean...the sense that life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat, and that the redeeming things are not "happiness and pleasure" but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

1940

★ 3.6

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