Quotes About Adversity

Confrontation was a great idea – unless the odds were so stacked against you that it was pointless.

I grew up hearing over and over, to the point of tedium, that "hard work" was the secret of success: "Work hard and you'll get ahead" or "It's hard work that got us where we are." No one ever said that you could work hard - harder even than you ever thought possible - and still find yourself sinking ever deeper into poverty and debt.

A lot of what we experience as strength comes from knowing what to do with weakness.

I felt as if I were a goalie preventing the pucks of negativity from scoring.

of him going back into that fire.

The life we plan isn't always the life we get, but it's usually the life we were meant to lead.

You can't stop the thunder. You just have to let it roll over you. And then when it's done, you get up and keep going.

independence sprang from those years when I

Real strength comes in the face of adversity.

She suffered a tragedy, but she went on. It was the end of something but the beginning of something else." "Maybe." Her grandmother always talked about the importance of looking forward and not back.

The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark.

Cuando tocas fondo, pierdes el miedo...y es fantástico.

Life might throw crap at you, but there's always a silver lining.

The life takes your self-respect. And once that's gone, well, you're lost.

Life is hard and then we die!

There s only one way to deal with misery...I say Avoid it

Smile...it kills time between disasters.

For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.

What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.

Don't try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you're good, bad things can still happen. And if you're bad, you can still be lucky.

The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.

As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer's long hair in water. I knew the weight was there but it didn't touch me. Only when I stopped did the slick, dark stuff of it come floating around my face, catching my arms and throat till I began to drown. So I just didn't stop.

Life was going along smoothly, and then in a moment everything changed. It happened to me with my mother. It happened to Lockie at the Three Day. You do everything you can to right the ship of your life again, but it always lists a little.

The events we suffer through act like a polishing cloth or a chisel. It's your choice of which one, but it's one or the other.