Quotes About Adversity

No," I said, "when you're struggling to survive, no one gets to label you a coward, not even you yourself in your private thoughts.

She said it meant that no matter how bad things got, we could always make ourselves new again.

Because you're right. Bad stuff happens. But the real world is also all the things we do about the bad stuff. We're the real world, too.

Sara Pennypacker

I have had not so good of a week.

Gray had not gotten better.

Now I'm a failure twice over. Three times, actually, if we're counting personal and professional things, since my marriage failed, too. So, you see, staying with me might not be your smartest move.

There are some remedies worse than disease.

The obstacle is the path.

Whatever baggage you have, use it. Conquer it. Don't let it stop you.

I'm just saying -- you can't prevent other people from disappointing you. It's bound to happen at some point. We're all only human. What you can do is decide how you're going to deal with it.

What are my thoughts on this whole ordeal?" she repeated, pausing to contemplate. And then she thought of the perfect answer. "Ali didn't manage to kill us," she said. "She only made us stronger.

Woo-hoo, everyone elses lives sucked ass too. It didn't really make Arias problems any easier.

all of us are damaged in our own ways. It's just that most people call it 'experience'. And you've had a lot of experience.

Well it happened, you know? And There's nothing we can do about it now. You can blame and blame yourself, thinking og thw things you might've done differently, or ask if maybe it was her time, and ask if this has something to do with god, maybe, but sometimes I think things just happen. There's nothing you can do about it-you just gotta deal with it. Sometimes life really sucks. you know? sometimes it just sucks

Life is hard. If we go with these feelings that are wrong, our lives are going to be even more of an uphill battle. things are hard enough, you know? Why make it worse?

I didn't want to be morose. I didn't want to recoil from everything

Life isn't worth living if you're scared all the time.

Sara Shepard

I was fired ignominiously from the Junior School Choir for being so off tune that the choir mistress declared she couldn't even bear to have me mime.

People are so different in wartime. No one gets to be ordinary. Not really.

We just have to get back to normal. You know what Winston says – when you're going through hell, just keep going.

You were born to this, weren't you?' 'Well, you know what they say – it's not where you start, it's where you finish.

He didn't look as if he'd been through a whirlwind exactly but he'd certainly endured a stiff breeze.