{"id":6057,"date":"2011-11-21T06:15:29","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T11:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beyondblue\/?p=6057"},"modified":"2011-08-26T13:19:57","modified_gmt":"2011-08-26T17:19:57","slug":"mindful-monday-on-overcoming-adversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/2011\/11\/mindful-monday-on-overcoming-adversity.html","title":{"rendered":"Mindful Monday: On Overcoming Adversity"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>“The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.” –Epictetus<\/p>\n

“Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.” –Robert Schuller<\/p>\n

“The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.” –Chinese proverb<\/p>\n

“The greatest glory in living lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail.” –Nelson Mandela<\/p>\n

\u201cI have not failed 10,000 times. I found 10,000 ways that won\u2019t work\u201d\u2013Thomas Edison.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have learned that failure is really God\u2019s way of saying, \u2018Excuse me, you\u2019re moving in the wrong direction.\u2019\u201d \u2013Oprah Winfrey<\/p>\n

\u201cOut of difficulties grow miracles.\u201d ?~Jean De La Bruyere<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.\u201d \u2013Seneca<\/p>\n

Artwork by the talented Anya Getter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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