Face to face, difficulties which appear really insuperable at a distance are very often removed altogether from our path.

Why be afraid of difficulties, sufferings and problems? When troubles come, try to understand the relevance of your sufferings. Adversity always presents opportunities for introspection.

Even the hard times are part of your life story. If you acknowledge them and move past them, they eventually add up to the experience that makes you wise.

When we face with a steady eye the difficulties which lie before us, we may derive new confidence from remembering those we have already overcome.

Dangers which are warded off and difficulties which are overcome before they reach a crisis are utterly unrecognised.

My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.