Plato Quotes

A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.

When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.

Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you.

I don't consider myself a survivor; that's someone who has gone through something terrible.

Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

There's beauty in pain, and everyone experiences it - and it's a lesson.

We all have a cross to carry. I have to carry my own cross. If we don't carry our crosses, we are going to be crushed under the weight of it.

Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.

No human being shall be burdened with more than he is well able to bear.

Sometimes, you find peace through misery.

Man's soul is strengthened by suffering.

Life is a beautiful struggle.

Throw dirt on me, and grow a wild flower

I think there can always be beauty in struggle.

Labour to grow better under all your afflictions, lest your afflictions grow worse, lest God mingle them with more darkness, bitterness and terror.

Today is cruel. Tomorrow is crueller. And the day after tomorrow is beautiful.

Don't forget: Beautiful sunsets need cloudy Skies.

Adversity is the mint in which God stamps upon man his image and superscription.

How should thy patience be crowned in heaven if none adversity should befall to thee in earth? If thou wilt suffer none adversity how mayest thou be the friend of Christ?

As the most generous vine, if it is not pruned, runs out into many superfluous stems, and grows at last weak and fruitless; so dote the best man, if he be not cut short of his desires and pruned with afflictions. If it be painful to bleed, it is worse to wither. Let me be pruned, that I may grow, rather than be cut up to burn.

Wave after wave of trial rolled over us; but at the end of the year some of us were constrained to confess, that we had learned more of the loving-kindness of the Lord than in any previous year of our lives.

As in nature, as in the arts, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls as well as stones their lustre; the more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, their God has no end in view but to perfect His people's graces. Our Father, and and kindest of fathers, He afflicts not willingly; He sends tribulations, but hear St Paul tell their purpose, - "Tribulation worketh patience, and patience experience, and experience hope."

I am afraid that all the grace that I have got of my comfortable and easy times and happy hours, might almost lie on a penny. But the good that I have received from my sorrows, and pains, and griefs, is altogether incalculable … Affliction is the best bit of furniture in my house. It is the best book in a minister’s library.

The more the flesh is wasted by affliction, so much more is the Spirit strengthened by inward grace.

I'll accept the pain and the suffering, because I know that in that there's a lot of beauty, too.