Menander Quotes

Art is man's refuge from adversity.

Menander

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• Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

  

  Tacitus
  • Great
  • Happy
  • Adversity

• For a lot of people, Superman is and has always been America's hero. He stands for what we believe is the best within us: limitless strength tempered by compassion, that can bear adversity and emerge stronger on the other side. He stands for what we all feel we would like to be able to stand for, when standing is hardest.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • People
  • Believe
  • America

• Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.

  

  Lactantius
  • Age
  • Memory
  • Adversity

• With an undefended heart, we can fall in love with life over and over every day. We can become children of wonder, grateful to be walking on earth, grateful to belong with each other and to all of creation. We can find our true refuge in every moment, in every breath.

  

  Tara Brach
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Creation

• Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Men
  • Adversity
  • Prosperity

• True refuge is that which allows us to be at home, at peace, to discover true happiness. The only thing that can give us true refuge is the awareness and love that is intrinsic to who we are. Ultimately, it's our own true nature.

  

  Tara Brach
  • True
  • Nature
  • Happiness

• Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Successful
  • Face
  • Adversity

• We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

  

  Tacitus
  • Happy
  • Wealth
  • Adversity

• I try to find scripts of stories that kinda celebrate the human condition... let's talk about the tough world out there and the human spirit overcoming adversity.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • World
  • Adversity
  • Overcoming

• I wish that only three residents of Tel Aviv could see what conditions on the West Bank are like. Living in such proximity, most Israelis have no idea about the adversity on the West Bank.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Wish
  • Adversity
  • I Wish

• Back, n. That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Friend
  • Adversity

• Adversity isn't an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It's part of our life.

  

  Aimee Mullins
  • Life
  • Adversity

• Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity.

  

  Periander
  • Adversity

• I'm used to adversity and working really well in difficult situations. It was hard for me to accept the success.

  

  Paula Cole
  • Success
  • Adversity

• Many of the lessons we are to learn in mortality can only be received through the things we experience and sometimes suffer. And God expects and trusts us to face temporary mortal adversity with His help so we can learn what we need to learn and ultimately become what we are to become in eternity.

  

  David A. Bednar
  • God
  • Experience
  • Help

• When adversity strikes, that's when you have to be the most calm. Take a step back, stay strong, stay grounded and press on.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Strong
  • Calm
  • Strength

• There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Fate

• We fail to see the purifying and refining effect wrought by the flames of adversity. These flames are not meant to consume but only to purify us. Disguised as adversity, blessings are showered upon us.

  

  A. Theodore Tuttle
  • Failure
  • Blessing
  • Adversity

• Its beauty stirs the imagination, and I wonder if the last refuge of all that is truly wild lies not on earth but in light.

  

  Ellen Meloy
  • Imagination
  • Wonder
  • Beauty

• I don't believe in technological determinism, especially not in biology and medicine. We have strong laws to keep doctors from monkeying around with humans that will remain in place. It's simply not true that everything that is technologically possible gets done.

  

  Freeman Dyson
  • Believe
  • Done
  • True

• Living in Manhattan opened me to whole new sets of things to envy, study, gather and imagine stealing. A full-size 1809 German harp, beautifully painted with three goddesses, covered in a pea-green coat of great silvery refinement: mine for $180. Though all its strings were broken, its beauty let it claim a quarter of my one - bedroom.

  

  Allan Gurganus
  • Great
  • Study
  • Broken

• First we have to believe, and then we believe.

  

  Martha Graham
  • Believe

• If Britain doesn't stay in the Single Market or Customs Union, we are very much in favor of a free trade agreement between the U.K. and Europe. We don't want Britain to be punished for its decision to leave, and it is not in our interests for Britain to be punished because we may be the ones who lose out as much if not more than them.

  

  Leo Varadkar
  • May
  • Free
  • Single

• Art is man's refuge from adversity.

  

  Menander
  • Adversity
  • Refuge