Life Goes On: Coping with Change & Loss
- Here are some notable views on managing life’s daily challenges.
- The crisis you have to worry about most is the one you don’t see coming.Mike Mansfield
- What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; ‘tis dearness only that gives everything it’s value.Thomas Paine
Posted on | June 29, 2025 | 1 Comment
Here are some notable views on managing life’s daily challenges. Do any especially resonate with you, and why?
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The crisis you have to worry about most is the one you don’t see coming.
Mike Mansfield
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; ‘tis dearness only that gives everything it’s value.
Thomas Paine
If a man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.
Martin Luther King
Ah, but man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for?
Robert Browning
Adversity is the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free from admirers then.
Samuel Johnson
The nature of the flower is to bloom.
Alice Walker
If you want a place in the sun, you’ve got to put up with a few blisters.
Abigail van Buren
If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I wouldn’t pass it around. Wouldn’t be doing anybody a favor. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don’t say I embrace trouble. That’s as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say, meet it as a friend, for you’ll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
When you can’t solve the problem, manage it.
Dr. Robert H. Schuller
Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
Frederic Chopin
No man can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest. For it is part of education to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.
T. S. Eliot
One may have a blazing hearth in one’s soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.
Vincent van Gogh
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles he has overcome trying to succeed.
Booker T. Washington
In three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life. It goes on.
Robert Frost