Quotes About Adversity

Every life history is the history of suffering.

M?i chân lý ??u Ä'i qua 3 bÆ°á»›c: ??u tiên, nó b? nh?o báng, Sau Ä'ó, nó b? ph?n ??i k?ch li?t, Cu?i cùng, ng??i ta ch?p nh?n nó nhÆ° má»™t sá»± th?t hi?n nhiên.

Bei Abwesenheit großer Leiden quälen uns die kleinsten Unannehmlichkeiten.

Nancy Mairs writes that calamities "have a genius of their own.

When you observe that the fire in your room is getting dull, you do not always put on more coal, but simply stir with the poker; so God often uses the black poker of adversity in order that the flames of devotion may burn more brightly.

By then Esthappen and Rahel had learned that the world had other ways of breaking men. They were already familiar with the smell. Sicksweet. Like old roses on a breeze.

Iba por el mundo como un camaleón. Nunca mostraba su verdadero ser, y se las arreglaba para que no se notara. Siempre salía ileso del caos.

Even later, on the thirteen nights that followed this one, instinctively they stuck to the Small Things. The Big Things ever lurked inside. They knew that there was nowhere for them to go. They had nothing. No future. So they stuck to the small things.

In battle, Musa told Tilo, enemies can't break your spirit, only friends can

I admired Grenville's ability to brush aside bad encounters and continue serenely with his day, as though no one could possibly upset him. Perhaps he was practiced because he'd been raised to it, but I'd never learned the art of it, and doubted I ever would.

Life is long, my young friend. Do not make it more difficult than it already has to be.

Sometimes there is no comfort, only the knowledge that the worst has happened.

Marianne had learned to live by her wits, and she took a severe and cynical view of the world.

You died. I cried. And kept on getting up. A little slower. And a lot more deadly.

Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.

ODTAA syndrome: the syndrome of One Damn Thing After Another.

The rest of the night went no better.

I never made it to the other side.

All we ask is to be allowed to remain writers of our own story. That story is ever changing. Over the course of our lives, we may encounter unimaginable difficulties. Our concerns and desires may shift. But whatever happens, we want to retrain the freedom to shape our lives in ways consistent with our character and loyalties.

Having given up totally on making it to anything else that day, I spotted a

THE CHOICES DON'T stop, however. Life is choices, and they are relentless. No sooner have you made one choice than another is upon you.

But somewhere along the way things started to go wrong.

Errors are too common and widespread to be explained so simply.

two months before he left the hospital. Weak and debilitated, he lost his limousine business and his home