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When times are tough, the weak bail and the tough get creative.
In times of adversity, you don't have a problem to deal with; you have a choice to make.
there are many points in life when we cannot see what awaits us around the corner, and it is precisely at such times, when our path forward is unclear, that we must bravely keep our nerve, resolutely putting one foot before the other as we march blindly into the dark.
The most difficult of decisions are often not the ones in which we cannot determine the correct course; rather the ones in which we are certain of the path but fear the journey.
There are few situations in life that cannot be resolved promptly, and to the satisfaction of all concerned, by either suicide, a bag of gold, or thrusting a despised antagonist over a precipice on a dark night
In every problem there is a lesson to learn, an asset to acquire, a rest to restore, a bitterness to sweeten, a load to lighten or a price to pay.
If past and future contained nothing but struggle and scarcity, all attention fell upon the present. A psychic resolve for relief from a sense of crisis overwhelmed the practical resolve to think about the future. Rather
Paines to get, care to keep, feare to lose.
Sometimes in the shadows of one's self lie the problems, and in the shadows of one's shaping lie the answers.
Precariousness and precarity are intersecting concepts. Lives are by definition precarious: they can be expunged at will or by accident; their persistence is in no sense guaranteed
Whether your situation is dire or stable often depends on your point of view. Exploring different vantage points can give you valuable perspective.
Living is something of an emergency anyway, but our struggles must usually be strenuously concealed. Our anxieties churn away within us, yet on the outside we must smile and deliver upbeat answers to enquiries about how we're doing.
The most fortunate of us all in our journey through life frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which greatly afflict us. To fortify our minds against the attacks of these calamities and misfortunes should be one of the principal studies and endeavors of our lives.
Personal finances are like people's personal health, crucial and tragic to the sufferer but tedious to the listener.
It is the prerogative of all humans to make ludicrous choices, to fall in love with the most unlikely of partners, and to set themselves up for the most predictable of calamities.
Life is a series of urgent choices demanding firm commitment to this or to that.
making judgments under the pressure of a crisis, about weighing the relative merits of various choices with potentially catastrophic outcomes.
All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
when distress comes your ways, pause and ponder
The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling.
Daily there have to be many troubles and trials in every house, city, and country. No station in life is free of suffering and pain, both from your own, like your wife or children or household help or subjects, and from the outside, from your neighbors and all sorts of accidental trouble.
The choice in this life is not between easy and hard, but between kinds of hardship, between a hardship that gives birth to wisdom, compassion and mercy, and the hardship that keeps on replicating itself to no end.
Sometimes in life you have to make difficult choices. The best time to make those choices is before you're confronted with them.
We live in a world of constant juxtaposition between joy that's possible and pain that's all too common. We hope for love and success and abundance, but we never quite forget that there is always lurking the possibility of disaster.
by indignities men come to dignities
As we survey the challenges of life, that which is easy is rarely right. In fact, the course that we should properly follow appears at times impossible, impenetrable, hopeless.
Every crisis has both its dangers and its opportunities. Each can spell either salvation or doom.
Indeed, the big decisions in life are hardly ever clear - except for one. And that one is piercingly clear: life is a series of dilemmas, of options, of conundrums, of possibilities taken and not taken. Negotiating these moments well is of the essence of the life well lived.
Sometimes, the choices we make have devastating consequences
Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.
Life's situations are like a set of cards in your hands.
You cannot change the cards, but you can surely play with them in your own unique way.
Nothing influences our ability to cope with the difficulties of our existence so much as the context in which we view them; the more contexts we can choose between, the less do the difficulties appear to be inevitable and insurmountable.
Everything of worth is found full of difficulties.
Events and circumstances sometimes conspire against us; if we insist on inflexibility for the purpose of maintaining our beliefs, we end up compromising ourselves nevertheless. We salvage one set of principles only to forsake another.
In hard times nothing is visible life seems to beat you down, with courage hit the problems ball will be in your court.
Life is a series of problems.
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
Sometimes misfortune brings opportunity
Nature has provided for the exigency of privation, by putting the measure of our necessities far below the measure of our wants. Our necessities are to our wants as Falstaff's pennyworth of bread to his any quantity of sack.
Whatsoever misfortunes there are Here in this world or in the next, They all have their root in Ignorance And in the accumulation of Longing and Desire.
It has appeared that from the inevitable laws of our nature, some human beings must suffer from want. These are the unhappy persons who, in the great lottery of life, have drawn a blank.
We each must select the best hardships for our best future.
Decisions are beautiful. They are the evidence of thought and care. Decisions are the polishing cloths of life.
Choices and consequences. Choices and consequences.
When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time.
our passions often become our misfortunes
In the lottery of life there are more prizes drawn than blanks, and to one misfortune there are fifty advantages. Despondency is the most unprofitable feeling a man can indulge in.
I am about to proceed on a long and difficult voyage, the emergencies of which will demand all my fortitude: I am required not only to raise the spirits of others, but sometimes to sustain my own, when theirs are failing.
Real misfortune is not just a matter of being hungry and thirsty; it is a matter of knowing that there are people who want you to be hungry and thirsty
We live among magnificent opportunities cleverly disguised as hopeless situations.
Life is nothing if not a random motion of coincidences and quirks of chance; it never goes as planned or as foretold; frequently one gains happiness from being obliged to follow an unchosen path or misery from following a chosen one.
Finding temporary and specific causes for misfortune is the art of hope: Temporary causes limit helplessness in time, and specific causes limit helplessness to the original situation.
Life is difficult.
Decisions can be like car accidents, sudden and full of consequences.
looked upon as misfortunes, which must be
Sometimes the hardest thing to do in a pressure situation is to allow the tension to persist. The temptation is to make a decision, any decision, even if it is an inferior choice.
We're living in hard times.
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
Finding permanent and universal causes for misfortune is the practice of despair ...
Troubles teaches us what we must know.
Decisions Determine the directions of your destiny
Trouble is the place where you find yourself when your judgment malfunction
Within crisis, are the seeds of opportunity.
Some of the greatest difficulties aren't the decisions we make, but the results of them.
No matter how perfect our circumstances, most of us, as Adam Phillips observed, "learn to live somewhere between the lives we have and the lives we would like." The hard part is to make peace with that misty zone and to recognize that no life - no life worth living anyway - is free of constraints.
There are some things none of us can control, some consequences that must be faced.
Life is full of tough choices, indeed.
Troubles may ofttimes be so dire that they cannot get better. But they are never so dire that they still cannot get worse.
There are many troubles which you cannot cure by the Bible and the hymn-book, but which you can cure by a good perspiration and a breath of fresh air.
Adversity is what illuminates quagmires, but all that really matters is destiny.We cannot be blinded by present circumstances which roar like Goliath and sent shivers down the spine. That's not what destiny holds, remember; mercy spurned is demise embraced.
Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.
My life has been a series of emergencies.
No one should desire to live in irregular circumstances; but if by chance a man falls into them, they test his character and show of how much determination he is capable.
The bittersweetness of uncertainty: To win or to lose.
You have to make difficult choices in your life, and you just have to be happy with them.
The unavoidable has touched the life of every human being on the face of the earth. Some have rebounded, others have given up
but all of us have felt the wings of tragedy brushing against us.
Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worthwhile to call one another's attention to their presence.
From time to time we may all face a hardship that is inescapable. If there's nothing you can do to change your current circumstance, then cancel the surrounding environment out of your Happiness Equation and solve the equation by using the rest of your life. When
sometimes life presents Herculean obstacles. We are all but small participants on the chessboard of life.
Many times through the ages, like as not the chance appears, but because of indecision, man's fond hopes are drowned in tears.
The circumstances surrounding our lives are no accident: they may be the work of evil, but that evil is held firmly within the mighty hand of our sovereign
I've got a history in my life of difficult times.
Adversity makes strange bedfellows.
Circumstances in life often take us places that we never intended to go. We visit some places of beauty, others of pain and desolation.
In moments of crisis our thoughts do not run consecutively but rather sweep over us in waves or intuition and experience ...
Hardship may dishearten at first, but every hardship passes away. All despair is followed by hope; all darkness is followed by sunshine.
It's those difficult times that inform the next wonderful time, and it's a series of trade-offs, of events, of wins and losses.
Trouble is part of your life
There exist some evils so terrible and some misfortunes so horrible that we dare not think of them, whilst their very aspect makes us shudder; but if they happen to fall on us, we find ourselves stronger than we imagined, we grapple with our ill luck, and behave better than we expected we should.
Trouble is another word for fate; what troubles us the most is what we are fated to one day face. What troubles us in youth will return at each crossroad in life because it secretly seeks to provoke a deep awakening to the unique way that we are intended to live.
Your current situations or problems have been sent to you to teach you valuable lessons for success and happiness. What are they?
A phenomenon that gave rise to my first critical insight into the subtle ruse of power: the prevailing law threatened one with trouble, all to keep one out of trouble. Hence, I concluded that trouble is inevitable and the task, how best to make it, what best way to be in it.
Life is an unending stream of extenuating circumstances.
The moment of crisis had come, and I must face it. My old fears, my diffidence, my shyness, my hopeless sense of inferiority, must be conquered now and thrust aside. If I failed now I should fail forever.
terrible fates are inevitable
In misfortune lies the seed of future triumph.
In the problems lie the opportunities. You become strong by facing adversities.
When you go against fate, the result can be dangerous.
Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it.
Difficult days demand decisions of faith.