「困難はすべて発展への糧と受け止めて」

[Kraise]

みんなさん、

I'd like to ask for a little help checking if I did manage to get the right meaning out of this one, I saw this calendar in my father-in-law's house yesterday, I'm not sure if its related to 天理教 but its definitely a motivational message.

目の前の壁をひとつひとつ乗り越えて、人は成長します。
困難は全て発展への糧と受け止めて、善処しましょう。

I'm not even going to attempt a translation but this is what I got:

"People grow by overcoming the obstacles in their paths, one by one"
"taking every "distress"(sorry, my english is failing on me now) as (a)(chance to improve)"fuel to improvement", lets do our best"

This is a rather silly thread I know, as the difficult level isnt really that high, but I feel there some kind of "lyric" feel to this one, something kinda religious on it making my comprehension a little bit obscure.

Thank you as always for the support

 

[Majestic]

They are not religious, but rather, as you say, motivational.

I think you got the essence of the meanings. I probably wouldn't use "one-by-one" as it seems a bit literal (mechanical?), but you have the right idea. The second one is similar, and again you have the right idea. Something like "Consider adversity to be the fuel/food/nourishment of personal development and act accordingly".

 

[Kraise]

Thank you, I was feeling rather confused by the position of すべて, after the topic marker and really close to the content of the sentence.

Can I consider ひとつひとつ a variant of 少しずつ in this case?

 

[Toritoribe]

困難は全て発展への糧だと受け止めて makes more sense, maybe? 全て is an adverb in that case.

Can I consider ひとつひとつ a variant of 少しずつ in this case?

Yeah, 壁 is countable, therefore ひとつひとつ can be used here.

Just one more thing. 善処しましょう is more likely soft recommendation/advise rather than invitation. This usage of ～ましょう is often used in textbooks or manuals.

 

[Kraise]

困難は全て発展への糧だと受け止めて makes more sense, maybe? 全て is an adverb in that case.


Yeah, 壁 is countable, therefore ひとつひとつ can be used here.

Just one more thing. 善処しましょう is more likely soft recommendation/advise rather than invitation. This usage of ～ましょう is often used in textbooks or manuals.

Thank you,

I took a picture of it,(sorry for the quality): , there isnt a "だと", does it change the meaning or will it just sound strange @Toritoribe さん?

 

[Toritoribe]

The meaning is the same and the original does sound perfectly correct. I just added だ to make clear the function of 全て. "All adversities are the fuel of~" and "Adversities are all the fuel of~" are the same also in English, right?

 

[Kraise]

Ah, I got it.

Thank you Toritoribeさん!!