Quotes About Adversity

I've been depressed many times in my life. But under it all I'm an optimist.

I think the credit crunch is a brilliant thing. We should all stop moaning and start celebrating. When times are tough, it's an opportunity to start looking at life in a different way.

There's no such thing as a perfect life, but if you hold on to that long enough and watch it get chipped away, that's really hard to deal with. I had no one telling me otherwise.

Sweetness of life depends to its bitterness.

HIV is not a death sentence. It doesn't mean life's over. It means that life's going to be different, but you still get to have those moments that people who don't have HIV experience.

This wasn't the first time I'd woken up as a captive. It wasn't even the second. I so needed to reevaluate my life choices.

I got very depressed. Hollywood can be a terrible place when youre depressed. The pits. I decided I had to change my life and do different things.

You can gauge the limitations of a person's life by the size of the problems that get him or her down. You can measure the impact a person's life has by the size of the problems he or she solves.

It's often said that a traumatic experience early in life marks a person forever, pulls her out of line, saying, "Stay there. Don't move.

I tried, it was hard, I quit, the end. Story of my life.

Whenever I took a step forward, it seemed as though life was pushing me five steps back.

...you are defined not by life's imperfect moments, but by your reaction to them.

I sometimes feel like life is just one big test to see how long we can survive.

Life is full of challenges and surprises.

You can't abandon life just because it's scary, and just because you get hurt.

Do you know why happily ever after is a lie?" Snow asked. "Because life is change.

Those times in life when you're terrified are the mastery times.

Life deals from the bottom, sometimes, doesn't it?

Life is hard. And we better laugh at everything, otherwise we're going down the tube.

There were some people who hit your life so hard, they left a stain on your future.

Just when you think you've got your life by the reins, that's when it's most likely to run away with you.

You can become all God created you to be even if you've had difficulties, even if you weren't born into a good, loving family, God still has a plan for your life.

You may have failed, but you are not a failure. That's what you did. That's not who you are.

Everybody is going to have their critics. It's easy to get discouraged in life.