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• Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back.

  — GladiatorAdversity, Courage, and Suffering

• What are you so afraid of losing when nothing in this world belongs to you?

  — Marcus AureliusAdversity, Courage, and Suffering

• The awesome thing about failure is that it is only temporary.

  Adversity, Courage, and Suffering

• Do not give in to the pressure of the moment. Whenever you are hurting bad, just hang in there. Finish the day. Take it one day at a time. Do not let your thoughts run away with you. Do not start planning to bail out because you are worried about the future.

  — Lone SurvivorAdversity, Courage, and Suffering

• Many dreams die while suffering.

  — David GogginsAdversity, Courage, and Suffering

• The mind gives up before the body.

  — Naval RavikantAdversity, Courage, and Suffering

• The cost of change is guaranteed. The upside is not.

  Adversity, Courage, and Suffering

• Circumstances do not make the man. They merely reveal him to himself.

  — EpictetusAdversity, Courage, and Suffering

• If you saw the size of the blessing coming, you would understand the magnitude of the battle you are fighting.

  — Calee ReedAdversity, Courage, and Suffering

• Your greatest gifts will come from your biggest challenges.

  Adversity, Courage, and Suffering

• Age wrinkles the skin. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

  — General MacArthurAdversity, Courage, and Suffering

• Perseverance trumps even intelligence. Stay with your dream well past when the world thinks you should.

  — Robin SharmaAdversity, Courage, and Suffering

• Sometimes you have to go out on the porch and tell the Lord you cannot keep going. And then you go back inside and keep going.

  Adversity, Courage, and Suffering

• Gotta risk it for the biscuit. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

  Adversity, Courage, and Suffering

• The biggest risk is to not take a risk.

  Adversity, Courage, and Suffering

• The crucifixion of Christ was the greatest injustice in human history, yet He bore up under it with majesty and indescribable valor.

  — Neal A. MaxwellAdversity, Courage, and Suffering

• God can't steer a parked car. Keep moving.

  Adversity, Courage, and Suffering

• You drown not by falling in the river, but by staying submerged in it. You have to get yourself out of your messes.

  Adversity, Courage, and Suffering

• Hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life.

  Adversity, Courage, and Suffering

• If you have two relatively equal choices, take the path that is more difficult and more painful in the short term.

  — Naval RavikantAdversity, Courage, and Suffering

• The path to happiness and righteous judgment: put a wrongful action in a box. Judge it, hate it, condemn it. But leave the person, yourself or another, in a separate box that you fiercely love, respect, forgive, and cherish. This leaves everyone free to overcome the action and move on. If it happens again, put it in a box. Rinse and repeat. This is what God does for us. He can simultaneously hate our mistakes and wholeheartedly love us.

  Forgiveness and Judging Righteously

• When people mistreat us, remember we have no idea what they have gone through that is influencing their action. It does not make it right, but it helps us put it in a box and forgive them. Not for them, but for us.

  Forgiveness and Judging Righteously

• When Christ was being crucified and in agony, He somehow asked His Father to forgive those who were killing Him, because He knew they did not know what they were doing.

  Forgiveness and Judging Righteously

• I believe if we knew someone perfectly, we would love them perfectly. Since we do not know people perfectly, we have to take a leap of faith, put their mistake in a box, and love them anyway.

  Forgiveness and Judging Righteously

• Forgiving someone does not mean you have to trust or stay around someone who repeatedly hurts you. It only means you put their poor decisions in a box and let them go.

  Forgiveness and Judging Righteously