strength-through-adversity

You want to live?Yes!Then quit thinking you're gonna die!

Your strength doesn't come from winning. It comes from struggles and hardship. Everything that you go through prepares you for the next level.

The strongest people are not those who show strength in front of the world but those who fight and win battles that others do not know anything about.

Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no sun, and water only when it rains. It's growing out of sour earth. And it's strong because its hard struggle to live is making it strong. My children will be strong that way.

An open mind, is the best weapon, in the fight between light and darkness

When I dare to be powerful--to use my strength in the service of my vision--then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

We are strengthening by different experiences in life;Sad times, happy moments.Poverty, riches.Failure, success.Troubles, good times.Losing, winning.

May your find strength to pursue your dreams.

You have the power within your reach to create what you desire.

Never seek to please anyone. Seek to evolve thyself.

Critics are important. They give us the reasons, knowingly or unknowingly, not to fall, slumber or deviate from our true purpose . If only you would see, understand and appreciate the real lessons your critics teach you with a calm heart, you would know and understand that your critics are nothing but great facilitators to help you get to your vision and true purpose diligently and distinctively.

If there's one thing I've learned, it is to never give up--no matter what your circumstances are. Giving up doesn't solve anything.

The Lord gives the bread of adversity and the water of affliction for spiritual rebirth.

I have all the patient to wait for what I want.

Without challenges, we fail to wonder.

It is important to refuse to be intimidated. That refusal must not be based simply on a calculation of the odds of succeeding. At times, in my case, multiple lawsuits and an ethics charge seemed overwhelming, and the fact that I knew my work to be accurate and responsible was only partial solace. l was well aware that court, like the National Football League, is an arena in which, on any given Sunday, anybody can win.The refusal to be intimidated must come, in the end, not from a sureness of succeeding but from a knowledge of the cost of scurrying for shelter through fake retractions and disowned truths. It is a question, in the end of self-respect.Who among us could, in good faith, ever face a survivor of childhood abuse again were we to run for cover when pressed ourselves? Children are not permitted that choice, and the adults who choose to work with them and with the survivors they become cannot afford to make it. It would be a choice to become. Through betrayal and deceit, that to which we object.Our alternative, then, is not to hide. Not to refuse to treat adult survivors, not to refuse to go to court in their defense, not to apologize and retract statements we know are true, but to cultivate endurance and tenacity as carefully as we read the research.Confessions of a Whistle-Blower: Lessons Learned Author: Anna C. Salter. Ethics & Behavior, Volume 8, Issue 2 June 1998

I'm not saying it's going to be easy; I'm saying it's going to be worth it. If it was easy, you would've done it by now

Defeat is only defeat if we accept it as defeat. Victory often comes after defeat, because one was too stubborn to allow it to be their reality. In the trail of any great conflict you will see the scuff marks, where the one was beaten down, but they could not be taught to stay that way.