TRIAL POND
Thoughts and quotes about the trials that rain down on us and ripple our waters:
"A problem is a chance for you to do your best."
��������� --- Duke Ellington

"A ship is safe in the harbor, but that isn't where it belongs, that's not where it does its best work."
��������� --- Author Unknown

"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries."
��������� --- James Michener

"God helps those who help themselves."
��������� --- American Proverb

"He who lives for himself will have small troubles, but they wlii seem to him great. He who lives for others will have great troubles, but they will seem to him small."
--- Author Unknown

"He whom prosperity humbles, and adversity strengthens, is the true hero."
��������� --- Josh Billings

"Heaven will not perform the labor that it has designed us to perform."
��������� --- Brigham Young

"If it weren't for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song."
��������� --- Carl Perkins

"If your day is cloudy, just remember the sky is blue above the clouds."
��������� --- Author Unknown

"It is not the load that weighs us down, it's the way we carry it."
��������� --- Author Unknown

"It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves."
��������� --- Zelda Fitzgerald

"Man longs to live in comfort and pleasure, but nature, who knows better what he was made for, gives him toil and painful strife so that he may rise himself above the sphere of his sorrows."
��������� --- Immanuel Kant

"No obstacle in front of us is as great as the power behind us"
��������� --- Author Unknown

"Nobody gets a big idea when he is not relaxed, and nobody gets a big idea when he is relaxed all the time."
          --- Edward Blakeslee

"Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
��������� --- Derek A. Cuthbert

"Reguarding trials, including of our faith and patience, there are no exceptions -- only variations. These calisthenics are designed to increase our capacity for happiness and service."
          --- Neal A. Maxwell

"Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance."
��������� --- Ruth E. Renkel

"Success is, p. a ladder that can't be climbed with your hands in your pockets."
��������� --- American Proverb

"To him that overcometh shall be given the crown of life."
          --- The Apostle Paul

"The all-important thing in life isn't what happens to you, but the important thing is how you take it."
��������� --- Harold B. Lee

"Preparation precedes power."
��������� --- Charles Lindberg

"What we are is God's gift to us; what we become is our gift to God."
��������� --- Author Unk

"You are not the result of your surroundings, but the result of what you have overcome."
��������� --- Shane P. Sorenson
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