Quotes About Adversity

You can tell a lot about a person not just by their successes, but by how they deal with their setbacks

Funny how life messed with you.

The Spire is a bad card. It can mean a literal tower, but it also means a fall from a height, whether literal or figurative, the destruction of something old and valuable. It means isolation, abandonment. It is the card of the scapegoat." "All of them things?" He raises an eyebrow at me. "The card also means falling to prey to your own self-confidence.

That happens in life sometimes, doesn't it? Something terrible happens and you think it's the worst thing ever and then it turns out to be the best.

But you can't raise kids to believe life is always going to be smooth. Sometimes life throws rocks at you, and when that happens, they need to learn to dodge when they can and get back up if they're hit. You need to teach them to handle the rocks.

Better to hope for the best and deal with the worst, than expect the worst and miss the best.

I know you're scared, but doing something even though it scares you is the definition of brave.

Rudolph." Tab

It's good to be the sunshine, but sometimes it's all right to be the rain, too. A good, balanced life needs both.

I'm the buttercream frosting on the stale cake that is life.

She hadn't lived in the moment because she hadn't liked the moment she was living in. She'd done her best to be strong and keep smiling, but it had been the toughest year of her life. Grief, she thought, was a horrible companion.

People are capable of so much more than they think they are. It's possible to rekindle relationships you thought were lost. Build a new life when the old one was dead. Learn new habits. Break old ones.

But life goes on, right? You keep walking, even when your feet are bleeding and you can hardly stand upright

We all want things in life we can't have. Happens all the time. Jobs we don't get. Houses we don't live in. Health issues we sure as hell don't want. People we love who don't love us back. Not feeling the way someone wants you to feel doesn't make you a bad person.

Maybe that was one positive thing about going through bad stuff. You knew good stuff when you saw it.

terrible mess of things," Molly told him. "And I

You feel out of control, but we can't control everything that happens in life. Sometimes we just have to go where the tide takes us and know we'll cope with whatever comes along.

Her mother had always emphasized that life was what you made of it, but Flora couldn't help thinking that what you made depended on the raw ingredients you were given. Even the best chef couldn't do much with moldy vegetables.

Life isn't smooth, but it's the bumps that help us find out who we are. And it's handling the bumps that gives us courage.

If you can't stand the heat…' 'Get out of the kitchen?' Holly completed the proverb but Nicky gave a saucy wink. 'Remove a layer of clothing.

Failure is a part of life. Success teaches you nothing, but failure teaches you resilience. It teaches you to pick yourself up and try again.

Up!" Mimi said sharply. "Lying there howling never gives you anything but a headache, and the only good reason to get a headache is because you've drunk too much champagne.

The whole world is medicine'. We can learn from everything that happens to us.

Buck regarded his two agents, Andrée and Lise, certain he was dropping his two most competent, most capable. Each was a girl who kept her head when all about were losing theirs, as Kipling might have said.