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He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

— Aristotle

A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.

— Orison Swett Marden

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

— Aristotle

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

— Matthew Arnold

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

— Voltaire

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

— Epicurus

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

— Epictetus

The one who turns his back on the world and its comforts and, sets out on the path that leads to the Beloved has to face countless difficulties. But he brakes them all for the sake of the Beloved.

— Dada Vaswani

✗Opposing Perspectives

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

— John Stuart Mill

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca