Quotes About Adversity

Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.

Sometimes you have to be a high-riding bitch to survive. Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman has to hold onto.

Sometimes you have to be a high riding bitch to survive, sometimes, being a bitch is all a woman has to hang on to.

Life is a crap carnival with shit prizes.

Beating heroin is child's play compared to beating your childhood.

That's clear about the end of my other life, how I kept saying 'I can do this' even when I knew I couldn't, even when I knew I was fucked, I was dead ass fucked in the pouring rain.

FEAR stands for face everything and recover – Old AA saying

You never know where the trapdoors are in your life, do you?

Hearts are tough, Most times they don't break. Most times they are only bend

My father had taught me - mostly by example - that if a man wanted to be in charge of his life, he had to be in charge of his problems.

She thought that things could not get worse . . . but they always can, and often do.

If you were seeing a lot of horseshit, there had to be a pony in the vicinity.

There were times . . . when it occurred to me that I was repeating my mother's life. Usually this thought struck me as funny. But if I happened to be tired, or if there were extra bills to pay and no money to pay them with, it seemed awful. I'd think 'This isn't the way our lives are supposed to be going.' Then I'd think 'Half the world has the same idea.

That's your job in this hard world, to keep your love alive and see that you get on, no matter what.

It ain't the blows we're dealt that matter, but the ones we survive.

sometimes an accident can be an unhappy womans best friend

There's a lot of things people think they can't do and then discover they can when they find themselves tight-wired.

And sometimes before I went to sleep I'd think: This is how, this is how you pay off bein' a bitch. And it ain't no use sayin' if you haven't been a bitch you wouldn't have had to pay. Because sometimes the world makes you be a bitch.When it's all doom and dark outside and only you inside to first make a light and then tend it, you have to be a bitch.

It hurt, of course, but more often than not the best things do, I've found.

It's a hard life if you don't weaken.

It was really amazing the number of hard hits from which a mind could recover.

I do have one slightly crooked wheel upstairs, but everything else is ticking along just four-o, thank you very much.

When it's all doom and dark outside and only you inside to first make a light then tend it, you have to be a bitch.

Also, I'm angry. I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why does it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to bite?