Quotes About Adversity

I'll be lucky if I can do as well as you when all this's done, just a bit out of breath, a bit bruised and scratched, a bit wiser and sadder for it all.

Courage is not fearlessness.

I should be used to it. But right now I'd like all my troubles to stand in front of me in a straight line, and one by one I'd give each a black eye.

I feel like a tiny bug, and the world is a hungry bird looking down at me.

I'm going to be a tilting boat," he said. "I'm going to be taking in a lot of water, and perhaps I'll keel over or perhaps I'll sink." "That was quite a metaphor." "I can't talk about it straight. It hurts.

Right now I'd like all my troubles to stand in front of me in a straight line, and one by one I'd give each a black eye.

I keep thinking about a tale my nurse used to read to me about a bird whose wings are pinned to the ground. In the end, when he finally frees himself, he flies so high he becomes a star. My nurse said the story was about how we all have something that keeps us down.

He could do this. He'd survived boot camp. He'd survived combat and the harsh weather of Afghanistan. He could survive broccoli. Probably.

You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.

You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.

We naively repeat the words "for better or for worse" and then are shocked when the first hint of "worse" rears its ugly head.

the enemy has been relentless. They nip at our heels, and send us running like frightened sheep. If I did not trust in Jesus Christ for comfort and strength—if I did not believe that He is still in control of this world—all of this would surely drive me mad.

A scar signifies past pain, a wound that did not heal as it ought. But it testifies, too, to survival...(Here be Dragons)

There's not a man alive who doesn't know fear, Dickon. The brave man is the one who has learned to hide it, that's all

Before great success comes, you will surely meet with temporary defeat. When people are overtaken by these feelings, the easiest and perhaps most logical thing to do is to quit. Quitting is exactly what the majority of people do.

My own master's instruction was that, when one is sorely tried, and the wisdom of the past has failed, it is our duty to find new wisdom from which to shape the future.

You need to accept the fact that Theo's natural state is 'in trouble

Very different from other middle grade of YA stories I've read about slaves running during the 1800s. – Wandering Librarian

The morning started out like crystal, but the day has turned to broken glass.

Stella expected to see fire in Mr. Spencer's eyes, fire like the flames that had made tinder of his house. Instead his eyes were soft, gentle, and brown like the earth. "I have to show them they didn't destroy me," he said simply.

by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor and The Giver by Lois Lowry. And

Sharon M. Draper

me, the inside wires that connect to my physical body are sort of like the ones inside that fixture. They're pretty much fried. But the wires to my brain—ah! Absolutely, exceptionally excellent!

Except for the lima beans.