EMBRACE THE ADVERSITIES YOU MAY BE FACING IN YOUR LIFE, AND RETRAIN YOURSELF TO VIEW THEM AS BENEFICIAL.

your perception of and response to failure were changed, what would you attempt to achieve?

Crisis doesn't necessarily make character, but it certainly does reveal it. Adversity is a crossroads that makes a person choose one of two paths: character or compromise. Every time he chooses character, he becomes stronger, even if that choice brings negative consequences.

The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.

You must retain faith that you will prevail in the end and you must also confront the most brutal facts of your current reality.

The problem promise: when you handle them well, problems promise to make you better.

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

Pragmatism allows a person to take things that others would consider problems or distractions and see them as opportunities.

[The Prayer of Mary] My Faithful Lord and Master, I boldly request that You speak to these dear servants of Yours. Ask big things of them. Make them uncomfortable. Stretch them in ways that they have no idea You can. And give them the will, the heart, and the faith to say a wholehearted yes to You whenever You ask. May their obedience change not only them, but the world. Amen.

You know that your attitude capacity has increased when your attitude is remaining positive even as your difficulties rise.

When I'm swimming with the tide, my progress has little to do with the speed and strength of my strokes. It is determined by how fast the tide is moving. Swim with it and you make fast progress. Swim against it and you move very slowly, no matter how hard you work at it.

it's not over until you've learned from it.