Quotes About Adversity

When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.

In life it isn't what you've lost, it's what you've got left that counts

The resistance and the degree of the resistance to the natural phenomenon of life causes tremendous suffering.

I'm trained to difficulties; difficulties can't be eliminated from life.

That's life and you can't change anything, you know.

Life's not so bad after all. There are not only poison but also antidotes.

What I'm saying is, when you have weight like that in your life, you have to start looking for the bigger picture or you are gonna sink.

The ruckus is different experiences you go through throughout your life which builds your ruckus points up - your tolerance. You've got to have a high tolerance for dealing with stuff all the time.

He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense of humor.

I just never felt so fantastically rocky in my entire life.

I think that I've had a very strange life.

Being down 3-1 [in the Finals] was the worst feeling I've ever experienced in my life.

You don't know what's coming for you in life, and you don't know what's around the corner. When you're in a great deal of pain, you're only imagining your world the way it is.

That's the story of my life rich or poor and mostly poor and truly poor.

When life knocks you down, you can choose to get back up.

We may never know in this life why we face what we do, but we can feel confident that we can grow from the experience.

One of the advantages of having lived a long time is that you can often remember when you had it worse. I am grateful to have lived long enough to have known some of the blessings of adversity.

And even though people try to pretend that pain doesn't do anything to them, none of us can really handle it. Everything bad we do in our life is because of pain of some kind.

Life affirming doesn't mean good things happen.

The very things in your life that seem to be depressing and oppressing you right now are going to be the means by which you set yourself free.

Resilience is not just a complimentary individual quality, but something that is built. And you build it through a number of things in your life, part of it being social fabric.

Mike Tyson's life is one of the most amazing American stories.

My parents had an experience of life that is as opposite to mine as you can imagine.

My characters never die screaming in rage. They attempt to pull themselves back together and go on. And that's basically a conservative view of life.