Quotes About Adversity

Sometimes there aren't any buts...If we accept what is our life, we grow through it and because of it. That's the way we grow up.

We never know how strong a beam a candle has until we try it in the dark.

'Tis the set of the sail that decides the goal, and not the storm of life

A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results.

Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

It is easy to be pleasant when life flows by like a song, but the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is trouble, and it always comes with years, and the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through the tears.

You will be surprised to find how much that has seemed hopelessly disagreeable possesses either an instructive or an amusing side." from "The Heart of the New Thought" 1902.

It is easy enough to be pleasant When life flows by like a song But the man worth while is one who will smile When everything goes dead wrong

There is nothing we cannot live down, and rise above, and overcome.

Besides, easy is overrated, and the only easy day was yesterday.

Gabriel Byrne is an extraordinary human being. We have two extraordinary kids and we work at it. We were always friends. He stuck by me through very hard times, and I hope he'd say the same about me.

It is clear I was never the Pretty Girl. I had my two front teeth knocked out when I was 10 and didn't fix them until I was 19. I have a crooked smile and a nose that looks like it's been broken 12 times but never has been. My nose was always red, so people called me Rudolph. My whole face is off-center.

She was healthy & thriving, like a weed: a weed with no interest in trying to become, say, a proper flower.

It's failure that gives you the proper perspective on success.

When life gives you lemons....they could really be oranges.

You just have to keep driving down the road. It's going to bend and curve and you'll speed up and slow down, but the road keeps going.

Haters are my motivators

When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important. It's hard to understand failure when you're going through it, but in the grand scheme of things it's good to fall down—not because you're drunk and not near stairs.

When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important. It's hard to understand failure when you're going through it, but in the grand scheme of things it's good to fall down—not because you're drunk and not near stairs. But it's failure that gives you the proper perspective on success.

You just have to keep driving down the road. It's going to bend and curve and you'll speed up and slow down, but the road keeps going.

It's hard to understand failure when you're going through it, but in the grand scheme of things it's good to fall down—not because you're drunk and not near stairs.

It was the hardest time of my life, but the best part of my journey.

Well, crying's good. It prepares you for life.

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