Harpooner1

Courage in the face of adversity....The human spirit.
What does this mean to you?

For some it involves the example of heroics in wartime. For others, it is facing the onslaught of natures wrath, and surviving. For others, it is risking your own life to save another. I all, it involves a measure of self sacrifice.

What it does not involve is being offended by a word or words you don't agree with.

It does not involve "Safe Spaces".

It does not involve blaming others for your problems.

It does not involve denial of facts...

And it does not involve whining, crying and r**ting over a l********e P*******tial e******n.

The left has been showing just how weak they are. They lack moral fiber.
You cannot make the weak strong by taking from the strong.....You only make the strong weak. When everyone is weak, their is no leadership. For a nation, this is peril.

Obama was a weak leader, and he trickled this down through the country as he could. Many a Liberal Democrat will rail against "Trickle Down" economics....Yet, Under Obama.....The rich got richer....The middle class hammered.
"Trickle Down Misery?"...

More people out of the workforce since the late 70's.....More people in poverty....More people on public assistance....Lowest home ownership in decades.
Middle east in turmoil...Foreign relations at a low.....
And he exalts himself in his speech as done so much......A profile in Courage....
Yes, you have to be brave to come out and say what he did.... A BOLD LIAR!
That's the only thing he has ever had courage about.......Lying to America.

The arrogance and hubris is to the limit.....

And Shumer? The definition of hypocrite fall on your shoulders, as well as all Democrats. And, Pelosi? My god...What an i***t!
" You break it, you fix it.." ( In reference to Obamacare).
Nancy, you just have to read what's in the bill after you sign it, OK?

These Democrats are going to have their panties in a bunch for a bit, whine, cry,lie, and obstruct.

They'll never admit to wrongdoings or change their thinking....Never seeing the destruction they have wrought.

If they like change so much.....Why can't they now change? Come up with some ideas Americans like?

Because it is their invested interests to keep things the way they are. Why? So they maintain power and make MONEY!

That is the bottom line...

They are self serving sick people.

JW

Ben Carson diagnosed Obama as a psychopath. Look up the symptoms. Obama displays every one of them.

Harpooner1

I could not disagree with a distinguished man such as Doctor Carson. I do wonder, though, about the rest of the Democrat leadership....They all fall under the same diagnosis.....

Zemirah Loc: Sojourner En Route...

Today´s contemporary youth could learn from those overcomers who´ve walked before them:


If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire — then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience. Life is inconvenient. Learn to separate the inconveniences from the real problems. You will live longer.
~Sigmund Wollman~


For thirty years now, in times of stress and strain, when something has me backed against the wall and I'm ready to do something really stupid with my anger, a sorrowful face appears in my mind and asks... "Problem or inconvenience?" ... Life is lumpy. And a lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat, and a lump in the breast are not the same lump. One should learn the difference.
~Robert Fulghum, Uh-Oh


Say not that this or that thing came to thwart you; it only came to test you.
~Muriel Strode Lieberman, "Wind-Wafted Wild Flowers," in The Open Court, August 1903


We have no right to ask when sorrow comes, "Why did this happen to me?" unless we ask the same question for every moment of happiness that comes our way.
~Author Unknown~


A bend in the road is not the end of the road... unless you fail to make the turn.
~Author Unknown~


The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.
~William Shakespeare, Othello


We acquire the strength we have overcome.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~


You can't run away from trouble. There ain't no place that far. ~Uncle Remus


If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it round. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes~


Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known. ~Garrison Keillor~


I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.
~Jewish Proverb~


Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in wh**ever remains to them? ~Rose F. Kennedy~


If you want to forget all your other troubles, wear too tight shoes.
~The Houghton Line, November 1965


Sometimes the littlest things in life are the hardest to take. You can sit on a mountain more comfortably than on a tack.
~Author Unknown~


If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.
~Frank A. Clark~


We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
~Kenji Miyazawa~


Bad is never good until worse happens.
~Danish Proverb~


It just wouldn't be a picnic without the ants.
~Author Unknown~


Life may take everything out of my days, but the real things remain. You may destroy my castles, but I have the timbers to build ten thousand more.
~Muriel Strode Lieberman (1875–1964)~ A Soul's Faring, 1921


From: Quotations about Adversity, http://www.quotegarden.com/adversity.html

bylm1-Bernie

Thanks for posting them, Zem. There are some good lessons to be learned there-in. One of my favorites Proverbs is 14:12: "There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of destruction."

Zemirah Loc: Sojourner En Route...

That just about covers every false religion on earth, doesn´t it?

- as well as the cults that wear a facade, a veneer of Christianity, but are not.

Kachina

I wholeheartedly agree. Trump isn't even officially inaugurated and he has done quite a bit getting trampled on by the media and everyone on the left for everything he says and does. If trump does something great, Obama takes the credit as something he started, hold face lie of course. Give trump a chance for cryin' out loud. Can't do worse than Obama. No one is perfect, I like the fact that he calls it like he sees it and is not always politically correct. Refreshing to hear a politician say what he is really thinking.

Kachina

Very nice post. I needed to hear these to keep things in perspective. Thanks.

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maureenthannon

Kamichia, You're absolutely right, excuse me, correct. Funny, the folks whining and crying about Trump told us to deal with it when we had the nerve to point out any flaw of their God Obama. All of us, either Republicans, Democrats, Independents, we're falls out.et us all come together and not demonize those who don't agree with us on every single issue. I admit, I'm as guilty as anyone on this. I promise to myself, right now, to try to keep an open mind, but not so open that my brain

Sons of Liberty Loc: look behind you!

One of my favorites...

Everybody gets knocked down in life, how you choose to get back up is up to you!...Leslie West

Harpooner1

Wonderful post, Zemirah.......Makes my day!

zillaorange

I wonder Zemirah, used to say' "that which does not k**l you, makes you stronger." now I say "that which does not k**l me, HURTS." !!!

zillaorange

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Zemirah Loc: Sojourner En Route...

Yes, I can relate to that, not only through the physical aches caused by my age, but the mental and emotional pain of watching my society and government embrace dishonesty, corruption and moral perversion...

I miss my country.