Beethoven, the great composer, could not go to college because of poverty. At the age of seventeen, he suffered from typhoid fever and smallpox.

At the age of 26, she was unfortunately deaf and her love was frustrated.

In this case, Beethoven vowed to "take life by the throat".

In the tenacious struggle against fate, in the career of music creation, the fire of his life grew stronger and stronger.

Adversity did not frighten him, but became a magnetic field for him to gain great vitality.

2. The story of Sun Kang

Sun Kang was born in a poor family in the Jin Dynasty and studied in the snow in winter nights. Che Yin was born in a poor family. He practiced fireflies on summer nights and studied by the dim light of fireflies.

See Book of Beginners, Volume II, and Biography of Qi Yu and Jin Shu in Song Dynasty.

3. Gorky's story

Gorky, a famous writer, has experienced the bitterness of the world since he was a child. Although he was too tired to work, he refused to give up reading for a moment.

He often wrote secretly at the urging of his boss and finally became a famous writer.

4. The story of Zhang Haidi

/kloc-0 was born in Jinan in the autumn of 955. At the age of five, he suffered from myelopathy and was completely paralyzed from the chest down.

From then on, Zhang Haidi began her unique life. Unable to go to school, she taught herself middle school courses at home.

/kloc-When she was 0/5 years old, Heidi followed her parents and sent her to the countryside of Liaocheng (Shandong) to be a teacher for her children.

She also taught herself acupuncture techniques and treated villagers for free. Later, Zhang Haidi taught himself many foreign languages and worked as a radio repairman.

5. The story of Zu Chongzhi:

In the Southern Dynasties, Zu Chongzhi carried out a lot of complicated calculations under the extremely simple conditions at that time, relying on small pieces of bamboo.

Over and over again, after numerous failures, I finally became the first person in the world to accurately calculate pi to the seventh place after the decimal point.

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Life is a mirror. If you smile at it, it will smile back at you. You cry to it, and it cries to you.

——? Thackeray

When you are alive, you can never get everything you want. Anyway, don't be discouraged when you encounter something unpleasant.

You have to make up your mind and try to get this tone back.

-Mark Twain is beautiful.

A life of trial and error is not only more brilliant but also more meaningful than an idle life.

-Bernard Shaw

The more tempered iron is, the harder it becomes.

-Wen Yiduo's "Looking at Chinese and Western Styles from Religion"

The ancients became great entrepreneurs from suffering.

-"Gift" by Qing Liu Yan