Quotes About Adversity

I'll tell you this: Parenting ain't for sissies.

Ben learned an important lesson: sometimes to survive you need to face your fear and overcome it.

Scarlett O'Hara was a steel magnolia, not a New Woman.

The Church had, after all, survived Galileo, Luther, and Darwin. Even Dan Brown.

It isn't a mask that she wears to cover the past but an invisible badge of courage.

she's very connected to her sisters. Adversity and courage have forged a strong, impenetrable bond between them.

It's hard to be genuinely enthusiastic if you can never have what's in front of you—when it comes so easily to others.

only with hard work and extreme fortitude could one escape the road map created by where they are born, whom they are born to.

The truth is surviving childhood trauma isn't the same thing as living.

When somebody pushes, pushes, and pushes you into a corner, pretty soon you're not going to want to be in that corner anymore.

We were a sinking ship headed for the bottom of the ocean.

She'd learned from Nikki's experience that not rocking the boat didn't stop bad things from happening.

Sometimes being human is harder than it looks.

They got trapped, fought their way free.

This universe wants to kill us, every day.

All our bright minds," Feynman said sardonically, "and we can't figure how to stop the enemy from dumping dirt on us." Freeman said with delicate precision, "We are hothouse flowers, really. Not made for the blunt edge of war." Nods

An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

Sometimes you have to lose to win

But I smiled, and smiling was easy, no matter how strange and disorienting the street seemed to be. I was a fugitive. I was a wanted man, a hunted man, with a price on my head. And I was still one step ahead of them. I was free. Every day, when you're on the run, is the whole of your life. Every free minute is a short story with a happy ending.

But survival means more than simply being alive. It's not just the body that must survive a jail term: the spirit and the will and the heart have to make it through as well. If any one of them is broken or destroyed, the man whose living body walks through the gate, at the end of his sentence, can't be said to have survived it.

Mistakes are like bad loves, the more you learn from, the more you wish they'd never happened.

I don't know what frightens me more, the power that crushes us or our endless ability to endure it.

The beautiful courage of us, the hope that defines our kind, is that we go on, no matter how much life wounds us. We walk. We face the sea and the wind and the salted truth of death, and we go on.

The contours of all our virtues are shaped by adversity.