Quotes About Adversity

most important rule of survival, which was that feeling sorry for yourself didn't work. It wasn't just that it was wrong to do, or that it was considered incorrect. It was more than that—it didn't work. When he sat alone in the darkness and cried and was done, all done with it, nothing had changed.

Fifty-four days," Brian said. "Not quite two months. Yes—that's me.

Do what you can as you can. Trouble, problems, will come no matter what you do, and you must respond as they come.

My name is Brian Robeson,' he said. Then he saw that his stew was done, the peach whip almost done, and he waved to it with his hand. 'Would you like something to eat?

which was that feeling sorry for yourself didn't work.

The fuel oil was too expensive so they turned the heaters down so it wasn't burning so much of their small monthly checks and they could still afford to buy and make two meat meals a week. But the cold brought them aches and pains so they came to the library where it was warm and they sat and talked and knitted scarves and mittens to give to their children who had moved away. They turned their house heaters down and lived on their memories in the library.

Gary Paulsen

The hatchet. The key to it all. Nothing without the hatchet. Just that would take all his thanks.

Everyone struggles. Each life comes with a long catalog of pain.

She never backed down. A fighter to the very last. This is how a human being is forged after an unhappy early life. This is the independence of growing up, of standing up for yourself, even if against a phantom enemy.

like a nobody, like a woman in regional sales gliding through airport lounges in the previrus era, always moving, always herself.

I was proud of New York, now more than ever, for it had survived something another city would have not: its own rage.

Nu, nu, do as you must, her patient replied, as if her entire existence was but an endless series of pushbacks and rejections.

Switchback turn, turn, and again, hard scrabble steep travel ahead.

You must realize that these are abnormal times and there's no way that any of us can keep ourselves pure

It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have begun our real work and that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.1

The brook will nonetheless teach you to speak, in spite of sorrows and memories

High-risk leadership beckons many, but few accept the call.

Though trodden beneath the shepherd's heel, the wild hyacinth blooms on the ground.

Strength and a stout heart are hazardous qualities where they cannot prevail.

Though trodden beneath the shepherd's heel, the wild hyacinth blooms on the ground. He

You must never let yourself be turned aside from life's serious and important questions by ridicule.

Fortune has dealt us this adversity: Some malign aspect or disposition Of Saturn in some adverse position Has brought it on us; nothing's to be done: It stood thus in our stars when we were born; The long and short of it is this: Endure.

This world nys but a thurghfare ful of wo, And we been pilgrymes, passynge to and fro.