A fun and mind-massaging assembly of quotes from other creative minded folks dealing with the subject of adversity.
I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights. – Maya Angelou
Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with. – Thomas Carlyle
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. – Henry Ford
It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good… – Dalai Lama
It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes. – Louis Pasteur
A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner. – English proverb
You can only come to the morning through the shadows. – J. R. R. Tolkien
Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn’t know it so it goes on flying anyway. – Mary Kay Ash
Eliminate the impossible. Then if nothing remains, some part of the “impossible” was possible. – Anthony Boucher
There is no use trying, said Alice; one can’t believe impossible things. I dare say you haven’t had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. – Lewis Carroll
So many dreams at first seem impossible. And then they seem improbable. And then when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable. – Christopher Reeve
One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself. – Lucille Ball
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. – Helen Keller
Dwelling on negative thoughts is like fertilizing weeds. – Norman Vincent Peale
An optimist is someone who goes after Moby Dick in a rowboat and takes the tartar sauce with him. (Zig Ziglar)
