Quotes About Adversity

El único fracaso verdadero es no ser capaces de crecer como resultado de nuestras experiencias.

Humanity itself is being challenged to move on to the next stage of our evolution.

Someone with whom we have a lifetime's worth of lessons to learn is someone whose presence in our lives forces us to grow.

Something very beautiful happens to people when their world has fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor.

Thought I appear unaware of my surroundings, I hear her words. They're cruel and hurt me deeply...I know the state I'm in, but I also know that I didn't bring it on myself and I can't get out of it. (103)

He [Colonel George Scrutton] always, like the wise man a hard life had made him, allowed trouble to come to him, instead of hastening to meet it, as is a woman's way.

Icilma always noted that their poverty never ran so deep as to prevent them from beautifying their surroundings:

Whatever doesn't kill you, it's gonna leave a scar

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that's important—you know

Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together

Families will not be broken. Curse and expel them, send their children wandering, drown them in floods and fires, and old women will make songs of all these sorrows and sit on the porch and sing them on mild evenings.

But when folks are down to the one thing that keeps them alive, that one thing can be meanness. It makes you feel like you're there, you're doing something.

The world don't want you as long as there is any life in you at all.

Etymologically, a disaster is a bad star.

Cleverness has a special piquancy when it blooms out of the fraying sleeve of failure.

An intensely lonely man for whom life had not gone well - I believe this was your language.

An intensely lonely man for whom life has not gone well - I believe this was your language.

It was a shock to her, a need she only discovered when it was satisfied, for those few minutes. In those days she had all the needs she could stand already, and here was another one. So she said something mean to him. That's how she was used to be and how she might be again someday, if she was ever just barely getting by and somebody seemed to be about to make it harder just by making it different.

What could the old man say about all those people born with more courage than they could find a way to spend, and then there was nothing to do with it but just get by? And that was when the times were decent.

Man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.

But when folks are down to the one thing that keeps them alive, that one thing can be meanness. It

When someone remarked in his hearing that he had lost an eye in the Civil War, he said "I prefer to remember that I have kept one.

the worst misfortune isn't only misfortune