“Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.”
Elizabeth Hardwick
“Money is not the root of all evil, it is the fruit. Humans are the root.”
Rain Bojangles
“God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. The way we learn those lessons is not to deny the feelings but to find the meanings underlying them.”
Stanley Lindquist
“In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends”
John Churton Collins
“It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.”
Proverb
“Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.”
Arthur Golden
“If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.”
John Heywood