Quotes About Adversity

Jaypaw swallowed hard, almost ready to start wailing like a kit that had lost its mother.

Are you okay?" Crowfeather asked. Breezepelt's throat was bleeding, but not too badly; it looked as if the stoat's fangs hadn't sunk in very deep. "Fine," Breezepelt replied. "You?" Crowfeather nodded. "Let's go and kill some stoats!" Breezepelt instantly leaped into the battle, but Crowfeather paused a moment to take in what was happening.

How is it possible for me to be so miserable and embarrassed and humiliated and beaten and still function, still talk and smile and concentrate?

If people are going to keep a journal, they should do it when they're little, where all the good things happen, before life starts kicking you in the ass and in the head and every other places.

When the bowl broke, that was my heart, laughter fell out.

A setback is just a setup for a comeback.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Fear is ever-present, waiting to be called to the surface. Change brought fear, and fear brought destruction.

There's nothing so bad that it can't grow worse. There's no limit to how bad things can be.

Men's best successes come after their disappointments.

Like the emery and sand with which we scour off rude surfaces, evil and trouble in this world are but instruments. And they are in the hands of God.

It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible.

Men are not put into this world to be everlastingly played on by the harping fingers of joy.

Suffering well borne is better than suffering removed.

Adversity is the mint in which God stamps upon man his image and superscription.

We are apt to believe in Providence so long as we have our own way; but if things go awry, then we think, if there is a God, he is in heaven, and not on earth.

A man that has lost moral sense is like a man in battle with both of his legs shot off: he has nothing to stand on.

Troubles come to us like mire and filth; but, when mingled with the soil, they change to flower and fruit.

No man ever grows to a full man's estate without the ministration of suffering.

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.

In one story, he describes a man who is blind in one eye, myopic in the other, too poor to buy eyeglasses, who wears only the frames, with no lenses. When asked why he replies: "It's better than nothing." As

As for Walter—he was a man constantly beset by tiny pinpricks of fate.

Women have a predestination to suffering.

Experience is the comb that nature gives us when we are bald.