"Every storm runs out of rain." (Maya Angelou)
"The first thing suffering does is it drags you deeper into yourself." (David Brooks)
“The more you embrace the moment, the easier the obstacle will be.”
“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.” (Theodore Roosevelt)
“A mistake becomes training.” (Ryan Holiday)
"Easy decisions = hard life
Hard decisions = easy life" (Stoicism)
“My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes but recovered from them.” (Bono)
“Your true character is revealed in times of adversity.”
“There is no education like adversity.” (Benjamin Disraeli)
"You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity." (Golda Meir)
"The truth is everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the one's worth suffering for." (Bob Marley)
"When you're going through something and wonder where God is, remember the teacher is always quiet during a test."
"Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor." (Dr. Alexis Carrel)
"That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly. It's dearness only which gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price on its goals." (Thomas Paine)
"When you are ready to quit, you are closer than you think." (Bob Parsons)
"Comfort is the worst form of slavery because you're always afraid something will take it away." (Seneca)
"Pain pushes and vision pulls." (Dr. Michael Bernard)
"The road to East St goes through the sewer." (John Madden)
"It's the rough side of the mountain that's easiest to climb; the smooth side doesn't have anything for you to hang on to." (Aretha Franklin)
"Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny." (C.S Lewis)
"Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health." (Carl Jung)
"Putting comfort ahead of success produces worse results for everyone." (Ray Dalio/Vince Lombardi)
“I imagine one of the reasons people clinge to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.” (James Baldwin)
“Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.” (Eckhart Tolle)
"I am satisfied if each day I make some reduction in the number of my vices and find fault with my mistakes." (Seneca)
"The struggle is great, the task divine - to gain mastery, freedom, happiness, and tranquility." (Epictetus)
“The comfortable life lowers man’s resistance so that he sinks into an unheroic sloth.” (Colin Wilson)
“There is no coming to consciousness without pain.” (Carl Jung)
"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars." (Charles A. Beard)
“Gold isn’t designed to forever stay in a furnace, but it will never shine brighter anywhere, except in that furnace…. and that flame.” (Mark LaCour)
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- Understand the power of the “cleansing storm”
- Cleansing storms = big infrequent events that clear out all the overgrowth that’s accumulated during good times
- Forests needs these storms to be healthy - without them there would be weak trees and a buildup of overgrowth that stifles other growth
"The quality of your life is directly proportional to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with” (Tony Robbins)
“We all need difficult days to increase our dependence on God and learn His Grace is sufficient.” — Paul Washer
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