Quotes About Adversity

There is always a way out of a situation. Might be ugly. Might leave you feeling like the earth has gone and shifted under your feet. But there is always a way around.

There would be good days and bad days. Today was just a bad day, a kink in the road, to be traversed and survived.

She had once been told by her favorite aunt that the best way to get through life was not to dwell on things so she packed those events into a suitcase, and shoved it to the back of a mental cupboard, just as she had done with numerous suitcases before.

I thought of how in less than twelve months I had survived homelessness and joblessness in one of the toughest cities on earth.

Sometimes, she told herself, life was a series of obstacles that just had to be negotiated, possibly through sheer act of will.

There's only one response, and I can tell you this because I see it every day. You live. And you throw yourself into everything and try not to think about the bruises.

The world is full of people who will try to bring you down, Caitlin," Mum said, turning to look at me. "And full of things that will make you sad and angry. But they are only people and things, and you, you are a dancer. Dancers are never defeated.

I totted these things up as if they were little victories against some foe I couldn't quite identify.

We women face many unexpected challenges when we choose to step outside what are considered our habitual boundaries

You don't have to let that one thing be the thing that defines you

With no money, no home and none of my things? That's the biggest bunch of Hallmark greetings-card self-help crap I've ever heard.

You think I don't know how that feels? There's only one response, and I can tell you this because I see it every day. You live. And you throw yourself into everything and try not to think about the bruises." "Oh,

if you cannot change your situation, then you have no choice. You can only change how you think about it.

Podría sobrevivir. Además, yo sabía, más que nadie, que peores cosas podrían suceder.

but the real truth is I couldn't cope. I wasn't strong enough to take charge of it all and make it better.

Si tiene un ser amado, se sentirá con fuerzas para seguir adelante. Si no, yo me habría hundido ya muchas veces». Esa

life was a series of obstacles that just had to be negotiated,

no journey out of grief was straightforward. There would be good days and bad days. Today was just a bad day, a kink in the road, to be traversed and survived. I

He can't bear it. I've sat there with him and there is nothing I can say to the guy, nothing that is going to make it any better. He's been dealt the shittiest hand of cards you can imagine.

I was living in a city whose rules I didn't entirely understand, with no permanent address, and I had failed in pretty much every job I had ever held.

If I'm honest, I probably only held it together myself because we couldn't all go to pieces.

we all cope with these things in our own ways.

Did I grow up wanting to clean houses?" She raised an eyebrow, as if checking that he had seriously asked that question. "Um, no. I wanted to be a professional scuba diver. But I had Tanze

Everything takes time, Will," she said, placing her hand briefly on his arm. "And that's something that your generation find it a lot harder to adjust to. You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously. You all expect to live the lives you chose. Especially a successful young man like yourself. But it takes time.