Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
~African Proverb
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
~Author Unknown
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.
~Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Satires
Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
~Rainer Maria Rilke
Thorns and stings
And those such things
Just make stronger
Our angel wings.
~Emme Woodhull-Bäche
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater.
~William Hazlitt
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