Quotes About Adversity

After a few hours of not seeing any sign of them, he relaxed into the drudgery of walking, walking and then more walking.

They got inside somehow. They're taking me to live with the other Cranks. It's for the best. Thanks for being my friends. Goodbye.

That girl loved to read like no one else, and she was making up for the months they spent literally running for their lives, when books were few and far between. The digital kind were all long gone, as far as Mark could guess—wiped away when the computers and servers all fried. Trina read the old-school paper kind.

How do we always get into these messes?" Minho asked. "At least we used to be able to blame everything on WICKED." "Yeah, well, we still can." Thomas murmured. Minho grinned. "Good. Those shuck-faces.

Mark had always felt like she was his as a simple matter of the situation. Pretty much everyone else she'd ever known had died; he was a scrap left over for her to take, the alternative to being forever alone.

They now knew they were being tested somehow, put through WICKED's trials.

there is not one single challenge to Christianity that eclipses all others in importance.

It was like hauling around a big midget in your pack.

Every trail has its end, and every calamity brings its lesson!

It is the absence of hope, which equals the despair that is the punishment.

Thousands of the Scotch-Irish began their New World careers as servants.

You only really discover the strength of your spine when your back is against the wall.

Why must an aphorism be brief? Because only a fool gives a speech in a burning house.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

But just remember, victories come singularly. It's the fuckups that gang up on you.

The "gift" of tragedy is not destruction, but humility

It's hard now to imagine that kind of travel and the daily tasks they simply took for granted. If a wagon axle broke, you had to stop and carve a new one. To cross a river, you sometimes had to build a raft.

Mistakes are the portals for discovery.

That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not.

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Being Mistreated is the most important condition of mortality, for eternity itself depends on how we view those who mistreat us.

If Jesus encountered demons and evil spirits during his lifetime his followers likewise may face them.

persistence is likely linked to high dopamine, so the higher the dopamine levels, the more you are likely to soldier on through adversity to achieve a particular goal.

No matter what occurs in your life, no matter how bad the circumstances seem to be, you must never consider a dishonorable act as a viable alternative.