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"The Good are better made by Ill, As odours crushed are sweeter still."
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Adversity"Plain paths are not always straightforward. You might encounter uneven, sometimes steep, sometimes flat obstacles along the way. Thats the nature of a path. Therefore, after reaching an easy path, the walking stick should not be discarded."
Stress, whether physiological, biological or psychological, is an organism's response to a stressor, such as an environmental condition or change in life circumstances. When stressed by stimuli that alter an organism's environment, multiple systems respond across the body. In humans and most mammals, the autonomic nervous system and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis are the two major syste
"The Good are better made by Ill, As odours crushed are sweeter still."
"A wretched soul, bruisd with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burthend with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain."
"How full of briers is this working-day world!"
"If thou faint in the day of adversity thy strength is small."
"And these vicissitudes come best in youth; For when they happen at a riper age, People are apt to blame the Fates, forsooth, And wonder Providence is not more sage. Adversity is the first path to truth: He who hath proved war, storm or womans rage, Whether his winters be eighteen or eighty, Has won the experience which is deemd so weighty."
"Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New."