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Seneca2 quotes
It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable. — Seneca · 58A great pilot can sail even when his canvas is rent. — Seneca · 65Boris Pasternak1 quote
I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them. — Boris Pasternak · 1958Carl Jung1 quote
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health. — Carl Jung · 1916Francis Bacon1 quote
Prosperity doth best discover Vice; But Adversity doth best discover Vertue. — Francis Bacon · 1625Friedrich Nietzsche1 quote
What does not destroy me, makes me stronger. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1889George Eliot1 quote
Deep unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state. — George Eliot · 1859Helen Keller1 quote
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. — Helen Keller · 1903Hilary Mantel1 quote
The things you think are disasters in your life are not disasters really. Almost anything can be turned around: out of every ditch, a path, if you can only see it. — Hilary Mantel · 2012Jesus1 quote
In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. — Jesus · 90John Bunyan1 quote
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. — John Bunyan · 1678Oliver Goldsmith1 quote
Our greatest glory is, not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. — Oliver Goldsmith · 1761The Joker1 quote
I believe whatever doesn't kill you, simply makes you...stranger. — The Joker · 2008Theodore Roosevelt1 quote
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming. — Theodore Roosevelt · 1910Thomas Paine1 quote
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. — Thomas Paine · 1776William Ernest Henley1 quote
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance,
I have no winced nor cried aloud;
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed. — William Ernest Henley · 1888