“When we long for life without difficulties,
remind us that oaks grow strong
in contrary winds
and diamonds are made under pressure.”
~ Peter Marshall
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Category Archives: Adversity
:We’re not going back to the good old days.
They weren’t so good for my people.”
~ John Barrett, voter
“Without rain, nothing grows.
Learn to embrace
the storms in your life.”
“And the people stayed home.
And read books, and listened, and rested,
and exercised, and made art, and played games,
and learned new ways of being,
and were still.
And listened more deeply.
Some meditated, some prayed,
some danced.
Some met their shadows.
And the people began to think differently.
And the people healed.
And, in the absence of people
living in ignorant, dangerous, mindless,
and heartless ways, the earth began to heal.
And when the danger passed,
and the people joined together again,
they grieved their losses,
and made new choices,
and dreamed new images,
and created new ways to live
and heal the earth fully,
as they had been healed.”
~ Kitty O’Meara
“Every storm runs out of rain.”
~ Maya Angelou more
“Oh, my friend,
it’s not what they take away from you that counts.
It’s what you do with what you have left.”
~ Hubert Humphrey
“When everything feels like an uphill struggle,
just think of the view from the top.”