Adversity is only yet another means to remind us of 'How Truly Awsome We All Are'!
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It is our triumph, in the face of adversity; that makes us the special beings, that we truly are.
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ANDONI GARCIA Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One
DANIEL GILMAN Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.
JOHANN VON GOETHE What a trajedy to be a martyr for love, yet we worship the characters anyways because they remind us...
SHANNON L. ALDER Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly ...
CRISS JAMI How rich we are in knowledge, and in all that lies around us yet to learn. Billionaires, all of us.
URSULA K. LE GUIN All of us change. Yet we change one another everyday everywhere. Destiny is man-made change. Change ...
TOMMY POLO There are moments of heartache and heartbreak, that we wonder how we did not drop dead in our pain. ...
MISHI MCCOY We are what we are, neither a good or as bad as others paint us. And what we are doesn't change how ...
MELISSA MARR We are what we are, Nial, neither as good or as evil as others paint us. And what we are doesn't cha...
MELISSA MARR We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out of control technologic...
ADRIENNE RICH Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defe...
RYSZARD KAPUSCINSKI Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defe...
ANAIS NIN We spend so much of our lives not feeling but doing, doing, doing, and movies remind us that we are ...
NADINE VELAZQUEZ Autumn colors remind us we are all one dancing in the wind.
LORIN MORGAN-RICHARDS I would caution all of us or I would remind all of us that any candidate that we support, they are g...
J. C. WATTS How can I teach my boys the value and beauty of language and thus communication when the President h...
JOHN STEINBECK Adversity only makes us stronger.
Every adversity we overcome makes our spirit and soul grow st...
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Maybe this is one way of telling them how much it means not only to me but to all of us who love our...
CORAZON AQUINO It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.
CLIVE JAMES It's so sad how we can go through life hating people, thinking that they are so different from us. I...
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JOEY TALLADINO I don't compete against other women. To uplift others means I'm never looking down on them. I applau...
ALFA H You can find sorrow in the arithmetic, and you can find a bittersweet hope.
DAVID LEVITHAN Every little gracious act adds to the quotient of grace in the world - how gracious can you be today...
ANGIE KARAN It is by no means over yet. We have an enormous day ahead of us.
MARIO ANCIC I am saddened by how people treat one another and how we are so shut off from one another and how we...
ELLEN DEGENERES All religious and spiritual practices lead to one deep realisation: We Are One. All is One.
ANITA B. SULSER Truly affordable but high-quality health care tools and services are the only means by which quality...
MUHAMMAD YUNUS Witnessing a selfless act brings tears to remind us how we should be treating others.
BRYANT MCGILL Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love mea...
LEO BUSCAGLIA We cannot let another person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen...
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JUNOT DIAZ Maybe we have to remind people there is another season of 'Monday Night Football' on ABC,
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LEWIS CARROLL Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means.
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JONI EARECKSON TADA Our difference are beautiful yet sometimes connection requires us to focus on our similarities, like...
SCOTT STABILE We want to remind everyone how important it is. All indications that anyone has told us is that this...
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KATHLEEN SEBELIUS It is a law of nature that we defend ourselves from one affection only by means of another.
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DOUGLAS COUPLAND If we're honest, most of us are doing okay.
CRAIG GROESCHEL We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.
LUCRETIUS We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.
LUCIANO DE CRESCENZO We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another.
LUCIANO DE CRESCENZO We want to remind voters how precious the franchise is.
CARL SNOWDEN We want to remind voters how precious the franchise is.
CARL O. SNOWDEN We are still in the kitchen now, but there is nothing yet. There are only pressures on us.
HASEEB AREF Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture...
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HENRY CLOUD To love yourself completely, in spite of all your faults and foibles, is THE work. For only when you...
DONNA M THOMAS In today's world, the elites are growing even more comfortable with one another across national line...
JACQUELINE NOVOGRATZ The community has rallied around us. We are truly thankful for all of the giving hearts.
JULIE JOHNSON The community has rallied around us, ... We are truly thankful for all of the giving hearts.
JULIE JOHNSON We think we are so strong but it is only when others try to prey on our weaknesses that we realize h...
JP ROBINSON What love is it, then, that has no need of words to call us? In whose image are we made, to take suc...
CHRISTIAN BOBIN Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is near...
MEISTER ECKHART Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is near...
MEISTER ECKHART It's a lie to think that you are not good enough. It's a lie to think that you are not beautiful. It...
DISON ARNIBAL Yet another birthday, yet another Christmas. They've stolen this time from us.
MELANIE DELLOYE Inner Strength is not only how you handle the adversity to come out unscratched ,it is also about ho...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Through adversity, not only are we given an opportunity to discover our inner strength, we are also ...
RACHAEL BERMINGHAM Hence we must support one another, console one another, mutually help, counsel, and advise, for the ...
THOMAS à KEMPIS The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN It has an uncanny ability to remind us of all things American.
GINA STEVENS I think it's because most of us talk one way and live another. There are a few people who truly,...
OLYMPIA DUKAKIS Brown v. Board helped unite us all, and gave us all great pride knowing we all are truly E Pluribus ...
MIKE ROGERS Those who are close to us, when they die, divide our world. There is the world of the living, which ...
AZAR NAFISI It is always a difficult issue for each of us to trust one another yet we expect to be trusted by ot...
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f...
ARZELL Dae FATE NAYAE Nanagha Vandhuttoom Da, Sandy , Na Nata, London Lass,Russian Grapes, Ellorum Ippa Van...
SATHESH KUMAR M Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories ...
COLUM MCCANN Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so th...
ARTHUR GOLDEN Death is the only thing that can not be explained truly. It is the only means for a true fallacy.
EPHDAN That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capabl...
SAM RAIMI We are all truly directing. We all feel deeply part of it and are making a great collaborative effor...
DON WARD If our focus is on how we are supposed to feel then we deny ourselves the joy of freedom in how we t...
MISHI MCCOY I'm interested in how artists and writers do this, using art as therapy. Escaping into the world...
DAVID LLOYD We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another. -Lucian...
LUCIANO DE CRESCENZO We are all different. Yet we are all God's children. We are all united behind this country and the c...
BARBARA BOXER We all have a personal pool of quicksand inside us where we begin to sink and need friends and famil...
REGINA BRETT All of us recognize the class-size amendment is a hungry giant. I want to remind the Legislature tha...
CAROLYN ROBERTS In the flush of love's light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, ...
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NATASHA TRETHEWEY Worshipping the Lord means giving Him the place that he must have; worshipping the Lord means statin...
POPE FRANCIS In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands a...
J. DONALD WALTERS If we truly understand, remember, and love the people of Indonesia, let us accept this principle of ...
SUKARNO How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell u...
JACK NICKLAUS How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell u...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.
SOURCE UNKNOWN If we say 'Holiness is not possible', it simply means, He who moulded and breathed into us has anoth...
KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL Children remind us that we're all children.
MARTY RUBIN Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, every dete...
OG MANDINO By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity--another man's I mean.
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