Quotes About Adversity

The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn't hard to master.

The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seemed filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster

The art of losing isn't hard to master.

None of us can know what we are capable of until we are tested.

But Miss Pym gave an impression, somehow, of having been attacked from within .

We desert those who desert us; we cannot afford to suffer; we must live how we can

Better to be rooted out hurt, bleeding, alive, like the daisies from the turf, than blow faintly away across the lawn like a straw.

But you couldn't really start over. That was a huge, modern lie invented by talk-show hosts. Sure you could change things that improved your life, but all the bad stuff lingered. It lingered in your body compromising your organs.

Her mother had told her that when she was a girl. Whenever you're in trouble, just remember you're your own best friend.

My lady, you must bend before you shatter and destroy everyone else into the bargain," she said. "What do you know?" Mellette snapped. "That our lives would be easier if you could find it within you to show some gentleness toward the living—no matter our unworthiness.

Worrying about them would make no difference, unless it diminished her ability to cope.

Everyone knew that; everyone was prepared until it happened to them

While writing The Summer Queen, I was constantly told that Alienor was a "woman ahead of her time." But my own take is that she was a woman of her time doing her best within the boundaries of what society would permit. Any attempt to go outside those boundaries was immediately and sometimes brutally quashed, but she was nothing if not resilient. I

Why in God's name did the idiot have to drop dead when all was going so well? I could almost think he has done it to spite me.

There was a time when I thought I could change everything. I have learned the hard way that we only have so much strength: better to use it for fights where we stand a chance of winning." "And

Weep now, but tomorrow be strong. Remember who we are and that whatever else is taken from us, they will never strip our honour and our pride.

You fall over, you get up again.

Non sono più la ragazza di un tempo. Non lo sono più. Sono più forte senza di lui. Sono più forte perché mi ha spezzato il cuore. E non gli permetterò di farlo ancora

It's better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick!

Self-pity is... a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink.

Because in this world there is always a monster. And often, the monster is you.

Says Momma: "I got handed lemons, too, y'know but I learned how to make lemonade with them… No one ever told me I had to add sugar but that's life for you. It ain't sweet.

Better to struggle through life with a broken wing than have no wings at all.

She realized with deep respect that this woman had always done what she had to do and faced what she had to face. If many of her fears and burdens would have seemed unreal to another woman, there was nothing unreal about her courage.