Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
Seneca – Difficulty
Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other?
George Eliot – Difficulty
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.
Henry David Thoreau – Life, Difficulty
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
