Quotes About Adversity

I think when get scared, they feel strong.'--Stella

Sharon Mills Draper

The route to our highest hopes tends to run right through some dark, booby-trapped places. A girl needs a map and a light to steer her; she might need a flamethrower or a cannon as well. She might need a pirate lover.

The world is full of terrible lessons," he said.

Once you've had your life burn down, it takes time to be a Phoenix.

Bombs and bullets alone cannot destroy India, because Indians will pick their way through the rubble and carry on as they have done throughout history.

They say every dog has its day, Ganapathi, but for this terrier twilight came before tea-time.

terrible fates are inevitable

S]ometimes the problems in our lives do not come because "we're living in a broken world," or "the enemy is attacking us." Sometimes our problems are a direct result of us failing to exercise self-control. We are not living in obedience.

We grunt like mutts or faint like bitches; take your pick.

I understand," she says, and then she quotes Du Fu: "The country is broken, but the mountains and rivers remain." Her eyes flash; he catches sight of the fire in this modest woman. "We are the mountains and rivers," he says, impressed. "No matter what the country is called.

But life isn't only where things are exciting; it's where things feel hard and stagnant, too.

Why did we find it so irresistible to make ourselves into tragic figures with tragic flaws which were responsible for our pain? Maybe unfortunate things just happened; maybe there was just bad luck.

The human spirit is tremendously resilient. It can withstand the most horrific of circumstances, whether of human or divine creation... It is not these larger-than-life situations that beat us. It's the little things.

Well, my daddy left home when I was three,And didn't leave much to Ma and me,Just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze.Now I don't blame him because he run and hid,But the meanest thing he ever did wasBefore he left, he went and named me Sue.

I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you don't experience either one of those, you're being deprived of something.

I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you don't experience either one of those, you're being deprived of something.

I could see their faces then, and the army became what it really was: forty thousand men—they were young men mostly, lots of them even younger than myself, and I was nineteen just two weeks before—out on their first march in the crazy weather of early April, going from Mississippi into Tennessee where the Union army was camped between two creeks with its back to a river, inviting destruction.

Virtually all these "good" reforms failed and mired us in all manner of unintended consequences.

Scar tissue does more than flaunt its strength by chronicling the assaults it has withstood. Scar tissue is new growth. And it is tougher than skin innocent of the blade.

If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.

If you suffer misfortune … do you damnedest to ignore it. Wallowing in what-might-have-beens and what-could have-happeneds will only keep your emotional wounds festering.

My brother got shot three times two months ago, and he didn't get the fever." "I bet your family gets shot at a lot, huh?

She couldn't find her shirt, but she sure as hell found her gun.