Charles Dickens Quotes

Many an irritating fault, many an unlovely oddity, has come of a hard sorrow.

Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are.

I don't see life as an opportunity to see how far you can go in the pursuit of pain, although I think I've challenged it a bit.

Trials and tribulations tend to squeeze the artificiality out of us, leaving the essence of what we really are and clarifying what we really yearn for.

Find the meaning behind whatever it is you're going through because everybody's got something.

If you truly want to grow as a person and learn, you should realize that the universe has enrolled you in the graduate program of life, called loss.

I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

The hardest things in my life have made me who I am.

I'm the same person. I got a grenade thrown at me. Situation turned out how it did. Now I'm just trying to do good things.

When life hits you hard, it can throw you off course. But how you handle that adversity can teach you so much about yourself and change your perspective on what you actually want from life.

It is written that adversity introduces us to ourselves.

You don't understand what makes you understand what makes your life better until you take something that makes it so much worse and you embrace that.

What did not demolish me simply polished me.

It is... very helpful to think of adversity not so much as a threat to our peace of mind but rather as the very means by which patience is attained.

I love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn.

Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them.

I try to view the challenges in my life not as annoyances, but as confirmations of fortitude.

This world and life of ours are filled with inequalities. The worst possible use to make of this fact, however, is to allow resentments to possess us. All of us have imagined limitations, but we have also the privilege of pushing them aside, and spreading our lives out! We never know any of our limitations until we put ourselves to the test. There are always "growing pains" working within us.

Life can take so many twists and turns. You can’t ever count yourself out. Even if you’re really afraid at some point, you can’t think that there’s no room for you to grow and do something good with your life.

It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured.\

By finding the courage to be ourselves, we gain the power to make a difference.

The troubles of this world pass, and what we have left is what we have made of our souls.