Quotes About Adversity

Adverse circumstances become growth opportunities when you affirm your trust in Me no matter what.

Dame gracias cuando las cosas no vayan como deseas, porque las bendiciones espirituales vienen envueltas en pruebas.

Evaluate how well you are handling the adversity in your life. I don't waste anything, including your suffering.

Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus. —1 THESSALONIANS 5:18 JANUARY 8 SOFTLY

Most of mankind's misery stems from feeling unloved. In the midst of adverse circumstances, people tend to feel that love has been withdrawn and they have been forsaken. This feeling of abandonment is often worse than the adversity itself.

It is not so much adverse events that make you anxious as it is your thoughts about those events. Your mind engages in efforts to take control of a situation, to bring about the result you desire.

Bullets sound like hornets when they pass too close to your head. After a while, the world closes down. You can't hear much, you can't see much, just the way ahead, the next slat, the next open gate. All you know is running; the only place that's real is away.

Bad things happen, but good things happen, too, ma'am. Sometimes you must make yourself know about the good things. Especially in India.

As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it.

They don't know how hard they are working or how much of their energy is going into just surviving. They don't know that living is not supposed to be that hard. Too often, like the frog, by the time they discover this is not the way it's supposed to be they're already depleted, depressed, or overwhelmed.

Because, when everything else is gone, all we're left with is our imaginations.

No one gets through life scot-free. Shit happens. I's how you deal with it that shapes you, not the actual event itself.

I think sometimes she lies in bed at night and plots ways to make my life suck. There can be no other explanation.

Well, she's told me very little about you,' her grandmother replied because she'd survived a war, one stillbirth, a daughter who'd got knocked up at seventeen and ten years of a Labour government, and she didn't take shit from anyone.

What is imposed on us by birth and environment is what we are called upon to overcome.

Anxiety destroys scale, and suffering makes us lose perspective.

I am a phoenix who runs after arsonists.

What a man can do and suffer is unknown to himself till some occasion presents itself which draws out the hidden power. Just as one sees not in the water of an unruffled pond the fury and roar with which it can dash down a steep rock without injury to itself, or how high it is capable of rising; or as little as one can suspect the latent heat in ice-cold water.

Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.

When life gives you lemons... choke on them and die... you stupid lemon eater.

It waits till we're weak before it reveals its strength.

As a rule, if you insist on speaking your mind, you will inevitably find yourself somewhere where everyone hates you.

It's natural for people to protect what they know instead of leaping into the unknown, and managers are no exception. Managers might even be worse, as the politics they rely on to survive can make them more entrenched and defensive.

You have to be willing to get burned if you want to develop the skill of putting out fires.