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Related Topic(s): Adversity; Awareness; Insight
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Adversity has ever been considered as the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being free from flatterers.
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Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 [O.S. 7 September] - 13 December 1784), often referred to as Dr. Johnson, was an English author who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, novelist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. Johnson was a devout Anglican and political conservative, and has been described as "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history". He is also the subject of "the most famous single work of biographical art in the whole of literature": James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson.
Johnson was born in Lichfield, Staffordshire, and attended Pembroke College, Oxford for a year, before his lack of funds forced him to leave. After working as a teacher he moved to London, where he began to write essays for The Gentleman's Magazine. His early works include the biography The Life of Richard Savage, the poems London and The Vanity of Human Wishes, and the play Irene. |
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Related Topic(s): Adversity; Laughter; Opportunity; Yin Yang
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When the heart weeps for what it has lost, the spirit laughs for what it has found.
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Related Topic(s): Acceptance; Adversity; Awareness; Coping; Joy; Living
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Being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival: a joy, a hurt, a momentary awareness. Welcome and attend them all!
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Related Topic(s): Adversity; Depth; Despair; Strength
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Our life is always deeper than we know, is always more divine
than it seems, and hence we are able to survive degradations and
despairs which otherwise must engulf us.
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Related Topic(s): Adversity; Beauty; Darkness; Inner; LIght; Loss; Pain; Trouble
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People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.
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Related Topic(s): Adversity; Awareness; Insight; NAIVETE; PERSPECTIVE; VIEWPOINT; Vision
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Light that makes some things seen, makes some things invisible. Were it not for darkness and the shadow of the earth, the noblest part of the creation would remain unseen, and the stars in heaven invisible."
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Related Topic(s): Adversity; Happiness; Pain; Pleasure; Sympathy
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I can sympathize with people's pains but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
Huxley, Aldous
PATRONS, GRANTS, FOUNDATIONS
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Related Topic(s): Adaptation; Adversity; Awakening; Coping; Flying; Growth; Healing; Recovery
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ItÂ’s all right if you grow your wings on the way down.
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Robert Bly
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An American poet, author, activist and leader of the Mythopoetic Men's Movement in the United States |
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Related Topic(s): Adversity; Possibility; Trouble; Water
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Wherever there is water there is someone drowning.
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Robert Bly
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An American poet, author, activist and leader of the Mythopoetic Men's Movement in the United States |
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Related Topic(s): Adversity; Character; Power
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"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
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| Abraham Lincoln |
Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809Â - April 15, 1865) served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led the country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War, preserving the Union, ending slavery, and rededicating the nation to nationalism, equal rights, liberty, and democracy. Reared in a poor family on the western frontier, he was mostly self-educated and became a country lawyer, an Illinois state legislator, and a one-term member of the United States House of Representatives, but failed in two attempts at a seat in the United States Senate. He was an affectionate, though often absent, husband, and father of four children.As an outspoken opponent of the expansion of slavery in the United States, Lincoln won the first Republican nomination and was elected president in 1860. As president he concentrated on the military and political dimensions of the war effort, always seeking to reunify the nation after the secession of the eleven Confederate States of America. He vigorously exercised unprecedented war powers, including the arrest and detention, without trial, of thousands of suspected secessionists. He issued his Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, and promoted the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, abolishing slavery. Six days after the surrender of the main Confederate forces, Lincoln was assassinated, the first President to suffer such a fate.
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Related Topic(s): Adversity; Attitude; Luck; Skills; WORK
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Adversity= luck + work + attitude + skills
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| Rob Kall |
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Related Topic(s): Adversity; Attitude; Happiness; Positive Experiences
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Happiness= PEs/Adversity/ Attitude(+or-)
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| Rob Kall |
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Related Topic(s): Adversity; Attitude; Happiness; Positive Experiences
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Happiness= Positive Experiences/Adversity/ Attitude(+or-)
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| Rob Kall |
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Related Topic(s): Challenge; Difficulty; Flow; GROWTH DEVELOPMENT; Learning; WORK
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What is required of us is that we love the difficult and learn to deal with it. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us.
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Rainer Maria Rilke
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Rene Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 - 29 December 1926)""better known as Rainer Maria Rilke (German: [ˈÊaɪnÉ maˈÊiËa ˈÊɪlkÉ™])""was a Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist, "widely recognized as one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets", writing in both verse and highly lyrical prose. Several critics have described Rilke's work as inherently "mystical". His writings include one novel, several collections of poetry, and several volumes of correspondence in which he invokes haunting images that focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety. These deeply existential themes tend to position him as a transitional figure between the traditional and the modernist writers.
Rilke was born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, travelled extensively throughout Europe, including Russia, Spain, Germany, France, Italy, and in his later years settled in Switzerland""settings that were key to the genesis and inspiration for many of his poems. While Rilke is most known for his contributions to German literature, over 400 poems were originally written in French and dedicated to the canton of Valais in Switzerland. Among English-language readers, his best-known works include the poetry collections Duino Elegies (Duineser Elegien) and Sonnets to Orpheus (Die Sonette an Orpheus), the semi-autobiographical novel The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge), and a collection of ten letters that was published after his death under the title Letters to a Young Poet (Briefe an einen jungen Dichter). In the later 20th century, his work has found new audiences through its use by New Age theologians and self-help authors, and through frequent quoting in television programs, books and motion pictures. In the United States, Rilke is one of the more popular, best-selling poets""along with 13th-century Sufi mystic Rumi and 20th-century Lebanese-American poet Khalil Gibran.
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Related Topic(s): Alone; Challenge; Difficulty; Solitude
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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
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Rainer Maria Rilke
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Rene Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 - 29 December 1926)""better known as Rainer Maria Rilke (German: [ˈÊaɪnÉ maˈÊiËa ˈÊɪlkÉ™])""was a Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist, "widely recognized as one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets", writing in both verse and highly lyrical prose. Several critics have described Rilke's work as inherently "mystical". His writings include one novel, several collections of poetry, and several volumes of correspondence in which he invokes haunting images that focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety. These deeply existential themes tend to position him as a transitional figure between the traditional and the modernist writers.
Rilke was born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, travelled extensively throughout Europe, including Russia, Spain, Germany, France, Italy, and in his later years settled in Switzerland""settings that were key to the genesis and inspiration for many of his poems. While Rilke is most known for his contributions to German literature, over 400 poems were originally written in French and dedicated to the canton of Valais in Switzerland. Among English-language readers, his best-known works include the poetry collections Duino Elegies (Duineser Elegien) and Sonnets to Orpheus (Die Sonette an Orpheus), the semi-autobiographical novel The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge), and a collection of ten letters that was published after his death under the title Letters to a Young Poet (Briefe an einen jungen Dichter). In the later 20th century, his work has found new audiences through its use by New Age theologians and self-help authors, and through frequent quoting in television programs, books and motion pictures. In the United States, Rilke is one of the more popular, best-selling poets""along with 13th-century Sufi mystic Rumi and 20th-century Lebanese-American poet Khalil Gibran.
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Related Topic(s): Challenges; Journey; Obstacles; Overcoming; Strength
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Strength comes from practice, which is acquired in its turn by surmounting obstacles.
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Related Topic(s): Challenges; Chaos; Confusion; Distractions; Journey; Obstacles
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TO reach the realms of light, we have to pass through the clouds. Some men stop there; others are able to pass beyond.
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Related Topic(s): Bliss; Obstacles; Road; Your_road
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If you're going to follow your bliss you're going to follow your blisters.
Sometimes the road gets rocky.
Sometimes the obstacle is in the way and sometimes the obstacle is the way
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Related Topic(s): Trials
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Someone must have traduced Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning.
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| Franz Kafka |
Franz Kafka was a major fiction writer of the 20th century. He was born to a middle-class German-speaking Jewish family in Prague, Bohemia (presently the Czech Republic), Austria–Hungary. His unique body of writing—much of which is incomplete and which was mainly published posthumously—is considered to be among the most influential in Western literature. (From Wikipedia) |
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Related Topic(s): God; Trouble
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'We are going to become Gods, period. {Through advancing technology.} If you don't like it, get off. You don't have to contribute, you don't have to participate, but if you are going to interfere with me becoming a God, you're going to have trouble. There'll be warfare.'
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| Richard Seed |
Richard Seed is a retired nuclear physicist. Richard Seed graduated cum laude from Harvard and received a Ph.D. in physics in 1953. He became an advocate of human cloning and announced that he would first clone himself. He later said he would recreate his wife, Gloria. He lives in the Chicago, Illinois area. |
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