The serene fortitude
When challenges arise, when difficulties shake, the attitude that can fortify is the fortitude. Fortitude is the strength of mind that enables us to endure adversity with courage. In the midst of storm don't be afraid but face boldly. God blesses us with adversities to reinforce.
But the nature of mind is flickering. It may deviate in negativity. I realized three stages of mental state in the danger for upliftment.
- Adversity is Distress.
- Adversity is a Difficulty.
- Adversity is a Blessing.
First one is frustrating. We get disturbed in it. We are doom in it. The second one faces it with hesitation but comes out of it. While the last one doesn't complain, even he enjoys and learn from it. He blesses God to gift him such an opportunity to strengthen self.
So never give up. Don't be a victim. Fight and learn from it and come up as a winner. Here are underpinning quotes by great people to inspire self.
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A serene fortitude in the face of disappointment and chagrin should be our goal. If you have evaded all unpleasantness in life your happiness is placed in unstable equilibrium by the constant dread that some unavoidable disappointment is just around the corner. If you have faced pain and disappointment, you not only value your happiness more highly, but you are prepared for unpredictable exigencies.
Just as we can immunize ourselves against certain bodily diseases by stimulating our reserves to overactivity by taking graduated doses of toxin into our bodies, so we can immunize ourselves against adversity by meeting and facing the unavoidable chagrins of life, as they occur. There may be happy human vegetables who have succeeded in avoiding unhappiness and pain, but hey cannot call themselves men.
~ W. Beran Wolfe
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O joy of suffering!
To struggle against great odds!
To meet enemies undaunted!
To be entirely alone with them!
To find how much one can stand!
To look strife, torture, prison, popular odium, death, face to face!
To mount the scaffold!
To advance to the muzzles of guns with perfect nonchalance!
To be indeed a God!
~ Walt Whitman
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To struggle when hope is banished!
To live when life’s salt is gone!
To dwell in a dream that’s vanished--
To endure, and go calmly on!
~ Ben Jonson
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Never give up! If adversity presses,
Providence wisely has mingled the cup,
And the best counsel, in all your distress,
Is the stout watchword of “Never give up.”
~ Martin Tupper
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Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.
~ Henry Longfellow
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Patience and Fortitude conquer all things.
~ Emerson
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It’s not the life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
~ John Galsworthy
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