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Unfortunately, some of our greatest tribulations are the result of our own foolishness and weakness and occur because of our own carelessness or transgression.

— James E. Faust

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

— William Arthur Ward

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

I don't want to talk about my trials and tribulations. Once you reveal even part of what your real problems might be in life, they come back in a deformed way.

— W. G. Sebald

Life is full of trials and tribulations. It's dramatic when you don't treat people right when you're in the tribulations, but I know now how to get out of it. You have to make a decision to say 'No more', and then you know what to do when the trials happen.

— Mary J. Blige

My failures may be my greatest successes. It is in failure that I have often drawn closer to God, learn to depend more on Him than myself, gained self-knowledge, and seen things in their right perspective.

— Mother Angelica

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

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

— Epicurus

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.

— George Orwell

True religious movements prosper and flourish under tribulation.

— Sun Myung Moon

✗Opposing Perspectives

Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.

— Ieyasu Tokugawa