"There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you". -- Woody Hayes
"If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience." -- Robert Fulghum
"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional." -- M. Kathleen Casey
"If you're going through hell, keep going." -- Winston Churchill
"We have no right to ask when sorrow comes, "Why did this happen to me?" unless we ask the same question for every moment of happiness that comes our way." -- Author unknown
"A bend in the road is not the end of the road... unless you fail to make the turn." -- Author unknown
"The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief." -- William Shakespeare, Othello
"The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work." -- Harry Golden
"I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders." -- Jewish proverb
"You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave." -- Henry Ward Beecher
"Turn your wounds into wisdom." -- Oprah Winfrey
"If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere." -- Frank A. Clark
"You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you." -- Walt Disney
"If you don't like something, change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it." -- Mary Engelbreit
"The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem." -- Theodore Rubin
"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors." -- African proverb
"There is no education like adversity." -- Disraeli
"If you're in a bad situation, don't worry, it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry, it'll change." -- John A. Simone Sr.
"The problem with troubleshooting is that trouble shoots back." -- Author unknown
"If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim." -- Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds." -- Norman Vincent Peale
"Much of your pain is self-chosen." -- Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet, 1923
"A problem is a chance for you to do your best." -- Duke Ellington
"Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive." -- Josephine Hart
"Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater." -- William Hazlitt
"The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism." -- Norman Vincent Peale
"Better bread with water than cake with trouble." -- Russian proverb
"When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one." -- Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
"Problems are the price you pay for progress." -- Branch Rickey
"When you're feeling your worst, that's when you get to know yourself the best." -- Leslie Grossman
"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning." -- Bill Gates, Business @ the Speed of Thought
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