Many can bear adversity, but few contempt. Anonymous Adversity, Conflict management, Contempt You May Also Like Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don’t share it, you don’t give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough. By Dinah Shore Adversity, Love, Relationship I don’t say embrace trouble. That’s as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you’ll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it. By Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Adversity, Positive, Problems It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion. By William R. Inge Adversity, Argument Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. By William Hazlitt Adversity The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune and willingly avoids the sight of distress. By W. Somerset Maugham Adversity If anything can go wrong, it will, at the worst possible moment. By Murphy’s Law Adversity, Life, Wise You May Also Like from Anonymous A talent is both gift and obligation. By Anonymous Talent Be nice to your children; they’ll choose your nursing home. By Anonymous Caregiving, Children, Old age A diamond is a chunk of coal that made good under pressure. By Anonymous Crisis, Daily quotes, Positive, Pressure, Stress Why do the best doctors have the sickest patients? By Anonymous Doctors, Patients An optimist is a man who starts a crossword puzzle with a fountain pen. By Anonymous Optimist, Pessimist I may be forty, but every morning when I get up I feel like a twenty-year-old. Unfortunately, there’s never one around. By Anonymous Age, Aging, Middle Age
Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don’t share it, you don’t give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough. By Dinah Shore Adversity, Love, Relationship
I don’t say embrace trouble. That’s as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you’ll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it. By Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Adversity, Positive, Problems
It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion. By William R. Inge Adversity, Argument
The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune and willingly avoids the sight of distress. By W. Somerset Maugham Adversity
If anything can go wrong, it will, at the worst possible moment. By Murphy’s Law Adversity, Life, Wise
Be nice to your children; they’ll choose your nursing home. By Anonymous Caregiving, Children, Old age
A diamond is a chunk of coal that made good under pressure. By Anonymous Crisis, Daily quotes, Positive, Pressure, Stress
An optimist is a man who starts a crossword puzzle with a fountain pen. By Anonymous Optimist, Pessimist
I may be forty, but every morning when I get up I feel like a twenty-year-old. Unfortunately, there’s never one around. By Anonymous Age, Aging, Middle Age
