Quotes About Adversity

for a minute her good-natured blue eyes were hard and sharp; she was the female fighting for existence—"that

Life is very trying.

Never give in! That's my motto. Don't think of trouble and trouble won't come!

The world is becoming a difficult place to live in—except for the strong.

To have known, at close quarters, what absolute evil means, is to be armoured against what life can do to you.

You can't really spare anyone anything,' she said. 'Things always have to be faced sooner or later. And therefore it had better be sooner.

One must take the downs with the ups, my friend.

I admired Elsa Greer because she had guts, because she could fight, because she stood up to her tormentors and never quailed! But I admired Caroline Crale because she didn't fight, because she retreated into her world of half lights and shadows. She was never defeated because she never gave battle.

I hoped for the best,' said Miss Marple. 'One cannot go through life without attracting certain risks if they are necessary.

Il peggio è spesso la verità.

if you're born on the wrong side of the wall, I can't see that it's wrong to climb over it.

Ik bewonderde Elsa Greer omdat ze durf had, omdat ze vechten kon, omdat ze standhield tegen haar kwelgeesten en zich nooit liet intimideren! Maar Caroline Crale bewonderde ik omdat ze niet vocht, omdat ze zich terug trok in haar wereld van getemperd licht en halftinten. Men heeft haar nooit kunnen verslaan, omdat ze ook nooit gestreden heeft.

I kampen mellan dig och världen, ställ dig på världens sida.

Hélas, la vie calme et tranquille que je m'étais imaginée s'est très vite transformée en enfer.

One can't get upset at the dying fields when he is constantly warring with the rain clouds

Arday kastaa waa inuu laba mid uun doortaa, xanuunka edbinta nafta, ama xanuunka qoomamaynta wakhtiyadii uu daayacay.

Ceeb maaha inad imtixaan dhacdo, balse waxa ceeb ah ku qanaca caadeysiga dhicitaanka joogtada ah.

Trees make me believe that we can also renew and reshape our lives, no matter what we face life.

bad things happen in heat like this

Adversity isn't an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It's part of our life. I think of it like my shadow — sometimes I see a lot of it, sometimes there's very little, but it's always with me.

Just as there must be Black so that we can see White, the Creator has created Troubles so that we can Appreciate our Blessings.

Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.

When one is undone—sprawled across the cold tile of a public bathroom in a pool of one's own vomit, or shivering in the back of a taxi in a pair of urine-soaked skinny jeans with no money for cab fare and a dead cell phone battery—much like a wobbly toddler or an unhinged politician, one immediately looks for someone else to blame. God. Your parents. Ex-girlfriends. Undocumented immigrants. Marvin in Human Resources. China.

Stark and egregious errors, the truly epic failures, forge character. They burnish your edges and make you the person you are.