Quotes About Adversity

first tip of fearlessness, and the first sign of real warriorship.

While Once-Born people avoid or deny or bitterly accept the unpredictable changes of real life, Twice-Born people use adversity for awakening.

Joseph Campbell calls the "hero's path." Some of us need a cataclysmic event to find our way toward "the center of our own existence.

She says, "You will not grow if you sit in a beautiful flower garden, but you will grow if you are sick, if you are in pain, if you experience losses, and if you do not put your head in the sand, but take the pain as a gift to you with a very, very specific purpose.

Don't run away from your troubles, because they'll sure as hell run faster.

At that moment I felt so ruined by life that I couldn't imagine it ever getting worse, which just shows that my sense of humor was slightly more durable than my imagination.

Don't worry about it." "When you're me, there's always something to worry about. Everything goes wrong for me, and you know it.

Having to struggle gave me the chance to demonstrate strength of character.

Never regret the stupidity of enemies

Sometimes the breaking of things is cruel, and sometimes it is necessary, and sometimes it is just an accident." "My mother was a painting in the storm, convinced down to the last fibers of canvas and the last drop of paint on the brush that the rain was an important part of the making of a masterpiece.

It isn't life that weighs us down–it's the way we carry it.

The key to a happy life isn't to manipulate the conditions around me so I can feel better, the key is to change the meaning I give it and find happiness, no matter what's going on!

Things end. People leave. And you know what? Life goes on. Besides, if bad things didn't happen, how would you be able to feel the good ones?

Things change. Stuff happens. Life goes on.

The world will knock you down plenty. You don't need to be doing it to yourself.

Three life lessons: 1.No one will see you. 2.No one will say anything. 3.No one will save you.

Things... well, things suck sometimes. And sometimes you can fix it. And sometimes you can't. It's just the way it is.

Under the idea that we can all make our own fates, that we have choices, is the reminder that sometimes we don't. That sometimes life is bigger than our plans. Bigger than us.

And that's what makes you angry. What makes you hate. You don't want to believe that sometimes bad things happen just because they do.

I heard how people sounded when their dreams were shattered, when their lives were turned into a waking nightmare.

And I know what people say about not listening to insults or how you should let stuff roll off you, but it's not that easy.

Under the idea that we can all make our fates, that we have choices, is the reminder that sometimes we don't. That sometimes life is bigger than our plans. Bigger than us.

To be asked to relive this horribly painful part of our lives and then be questioned on whether we could have or should have done more than we did to help ourselves is, frankly put, insulting. The truth of the matter is, the person being questioned survived. So that in and of itself is a big deal.

When faced with pain and evil, we have to make a choice. We can choose to be taken by the evil. Or we can try to embrace the good.