BITTER OR BETTER!!!! HOW TO OVERCOME (all) ADVERSITY!

When we’re faced with adversity, there are two questions we should always ask ourselves:

1. Will I allow this adversity to make me bitter?
2. Will I use this adversity to make me better?

ADVERSITY, STRESS, TROUBLE, DISTRESS, OPPRESSION, DEPRESSION,

[If] thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength [is] small.  Proverbs 24:10

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.  Ecc 7:14

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. Provverbs 17:17

There is no education like adversity.
Benjamin Disraeli

In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.
John Churton Collins

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
Isaac Asimov

Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
French Proverb

It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
Washington Irving