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“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

tags: adversity, inspirational, life-lessons, problems, trials

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#2

“These are the times that try men's souls.”
― Thomas Paine, The American Crisis

tags: adversity, american-revolution, trials

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#3

“I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end.”
― Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca

tags: adversity, growth, life, trials

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#4

“A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.”
― Robert Frost

tags: trials

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#5

“Our most significant opportunities will be found in times of greatest difficulty.”
― Thomas S. Monson, Pathways to perfection;: Discourses of Thomas S. Monson

tags: adversity, life, opportunity, trials

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#6

“There are many who don't wish to sleep for fear of nightmares. Sadly, there are many who don't wish to wake for the same fear.”
― Richelle Goodrich, Dandelions: The Disappearance of Annabelle Fancher

tags: abuse, fear, hardship, nightmares, richelle, richelle-goodrich, suffering, trials

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#7

“The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our heart upon the black horse of affliction.”
― Charles Spurgeon

tags: affliction, cross-bearing, mercy, trials

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#8

“To live greatly, we must develop the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and triumph with humility.”
― Thomas S. Monson, Pathways to perfection;: Discourses of Thomas S. Monson

tags: adversity, life, trials, triumphs

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#9

“You never really know what's coming. A small wave, or maybe a big one. All you can really do is hope that when it comes, you can surf over it, instead of drown in its monstrosity.”
― Alysha Speer

tags: adversity, coping, drown, enduring, free, hope, life, live, surf, surfing, trials, water, wave, waves

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#10

“I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.”
― Robert Browning

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#11

“Life itself is simple...it's just not easy.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

tags: easy, happiness, inspirational, life, motivational, simple, steve-maraboli, success, trials

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#12

“It takes darkness to be aware of the light.”
― Treasure Tatum

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#13

“Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.”
― Charles Caleb Colton

tags: adversity, confusion, darkness, hardships, learning, productivity, trials

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#14

“...the sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island

tags: adversity, god, trials

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#15

“The first time is always the hardest”
― Sarwat Chadda, Dark Goddess

tags: dark-goddess, death, kill, trials

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#16

“Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: adversity, providence, trials

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#17

“Affliction is a good man's shining time.”
― Edward Young

tags: adversity, character, hard-times, perseverance, trials

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#18

“While you are going through your trial, you can recall your past victories and count the blessings that you do have with a sure hope of greater ones to allow if you are faithful.”
― Ezra Taft Benson

tags: adversity, blessings, faith, trials

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#19

“Anxiously you ask, 'Is there a way to safety? Can someone guide me? Is there an escape from threatened destruction?' The answer is a resounding yes! I counsel you: Look to the lighthouse of the Lord. There is no fog so dense, no night so dark, no gale so strong, no mariner so lost but what its beacon light can rescue. It beckons through the storms of life. It calls, 'This way to safety; this way to home.”
― Thomas S. Monson

tags: comfort, inspirational, light, lighthouse, religious, rescue, trials

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#20

“If you fall-and trust me, you will- make sure you fall on your back. Because if you fall on your back, you can see up. And if you can see up, you can get up. And you can keep going and going and going.”
― Hoda Kotb, Hoda: How I Survived War Zones, Bad Hair, Cancer, and Kathie Lee

tags: adversity, trials

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#21

“What you perceive as a failure today may actually be a crucial step towards the success you seek. Never give up.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

tags: determination, drive, failure, perseverance, richelle, richelle-goodrich, success, trials

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#22

“I daresay it seems foolish; perhaps all our earthly trials will appear foolish to us after a while; perhaps they seem so now to angels. But we are ourselves, you know, and this is now, not some time to come, a long, long way off. And we are not angels, to be comforted by seeing the ends for which everything is sent.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters

tags: adversity, angels, trials

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#23

“Those doves below, the ones utterly cared for, never endangered ones, cannot know tenderness.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

tags: adversity, trials

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#24

“In a time when I need a little hope I look at a photo of where I call home and think of the moment I'll have when I go back with my trials and struggles carried in a box able to be let free and turn into achievements and happiness.”
― Cassandra Shea

tags: hopeful, inspiration, trials

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#25

“Memories of the past year came tumbling down on me. The recent changes and reverses were almost overwhelming. I was learning that life flowed like a river. When the run-off was normal, the water ran smoothly. But if there came a downpour, it gushed. In the likeness to a flooding river, life events were caught up in the course of the devouring stream.”
― Mary Margaret Jensen, Against the Grain

tags: adversity, life, trials

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#26

“Before the fruits of prosperity can come, the storms of life need to first bring the required rains of testing, which mixes with the seeds of wisdom to produce a mature harvest.”
― Lincoln Patz

tags: harvest, life, prosperity, success, testing, trials, wisdom

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#27

“Never mourn the loss of innocence, because it always brings the much greater gain of wisdom.”
― Erica Goros

tags: beauty, change, inspirational-quotes, life, maturity, trials

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#28

“You know my name, not my story. You've heard what I've done, but not what I've been through.”
― Jonathan Anthony Burkett, Neglected but Undefeated: The Life of a Boy Who Never Knew a Mother s Love

tags: inspirational, lessons, life, trials, trouble

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#29

“If you allow it, [suffering] can be the means by which God brings you His greatest blessings.”
― Swindoll Charles R.

tags: christianity, faith, suffering, trials

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#30

“Sometimes new opportunity means new opposition. Not everything God asks us to do will be comfortable.”
― Joyce Meyer

tags: faith, god, trials

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