Quotes About Adversity

The fire had been difficult, but not to a degree that had ever made him flee before.

People may hate being embarrassed and strive not to show it when they are, but embarrassment serves an important good.

I would have gone through with it even if they told me there was a fifty percent chance of death.

such episodes are shrugged off.

When someone has come to you for your expertise and your expertise has failed, what do you have left? You have only your character to fall back upon—and

The nausea and the vomiting persisted, but she would not be defeated by them.

I asked Vince how his business was going. Not well, he said.

Medicine requires the fortitude to take what comes: your schedule may be packed, the hour late, your child waiting for you to pick him up after swimming practice; but if a problem arises you have to do what is necessary

called him at home to hear how he had weathered the aftermath.

There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible.

Because the machine will try to grind you into dust anyway, whether or not we speak.

If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.

Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.

There are no new pains.

We can learn to work and speak when we are afraid in the same way we have learned to work and speak when we are tired.

We learn to work when we are tired, so we can learn to work when we are afraid.

Survival is the greatest gift of love

young seeds that have not seen sun forget and drown easily.

For to survive in the mouth of this dragon we call america, we have had to learn this first and most vital lesson—that we were never meant to survive.

You become strong by doing the things you need to be strong for.

Somedays, if bitterness were a whetstone, I could be sharp as grief.

One never really forgets the primary lessons of survival, if one continues to survive.

Growing up Fat Black Female and almost blind in america requires so much surviving that you have to learn from it or die.

Om tegen de weersomstandigheden bestand te zijn moesten we steen worden, en nu stoten we ons bont en blauw aan de dichtstbijzijnde ander.