Page 1 of 4 Sometimes we have good days, sometimes we have bad days. At other times wi just need fi reflect pon life lickle.
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ART
A work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line. - Joseph Conrad Art is the difference between seeing and just identifying. - Jean Mary Norman
BEAUTY
For attractive lips, speak works of kindness; for lovely eyes, seek out the good in people; for a slim figure, share your food with hungry people; for beautiful hair, let a child run his fingers through it daily - Anonymous
CHALLENGES
The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse. - Helen Keller
Bull horn can’ too heavy fi bull head - Jamaican proverb
You can bounce back. It is possible to become strong in the broken places. You are a lot more courageous and heroic than you may think. - Max Cleland
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes - Henry J. Kaiser The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it. - Moliere
The important thing to remember is that the essence of our humanity is the spirit that lies within our container. We all have this spirit, and it is a reservoir of tremendous potential. When you tap into this potential, you can move mountains. And if you can't, you can still drill right through them. - Rich Ruffalo
The gem cannot be polished without friction, not man perfected without trials. - Chinese proverb
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved. - Helen Keller
It is not ease but effort, not facility but difficulty, that makes man. There is perhaps no station in life in which difficulties do not have to be encountered and overcome before any decided means of success can be achieved. - Samuel Smiles
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats. - B. C. Forbes
The man who has no problems is out of the game. - Elbert Hubbard
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is the just the place and the time the tide will turn. - Harriet Beecher Stowe
Every noble work is at first impossible. - Thomas Carlyle
Behind the cloud the starlight lurks, through showers the sunbeams fallFor God, who loveth all his works, Has left his hope with all. - John Greenleaf Whittier
There never was a night or problem that could defeat sunrise or hope. - Bern Williams
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is costliness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. The business of little minds is to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. - Thomas Paine
Adversity is the diamond dust heaven polishes its jewels with. - Leighton
A man of character finds special attractiveness in difficulty; since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realise his potentialities. - Charles de Gaulle
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown. - William Penn
If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn. - Bernie Siegel
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