Quotes About Adversity

Let the sky fall, when it crumbles - We will stand tall - Face it all together

Adversity not only draws people together, but brings forth that beautiful inward friendship.

We plan alone but we fulfill our plans together with the enemy, as it were, in accordance with his opposition.

Pull yourself together' is seldom said to anyone who can.

Akismet started on a $70 dollar-a-month server. Anyone can scrape together $70.

We can walk through the darkest night with the radiant conviction that all things work together for the good.

The dynamic between two individuals starts off with everything warm and nice and fabulous and good. Working and living together can serve you quite well, but when it starts to go wrong - oh, boy!

The dower of great beauty has always been misfortune, since happiness and beauty do not agree together.

Suspicion and persecution are weeds of the same dunghill, and flourish best together.

Aristotle said: "Evil brings men together."

We might have the worst bunch of guys together we've ever seen as a football team. I don't know what anybody else has, but I'd trade mine with anybody, sight unseen.

It's been a tough year. . . Someone said I should send out Buddhist thank-you cards since Buddhists believe that anything that challenges you makes you pull yourself together.

No trial is so large we can't overcome it together.

La vida nos es insoportable a todos a veces —dijo ella—. No creo que haya nadie lo bastante afortunado como para escapar de toda la oscuridad que ofrece.

Why , instead of teaching her poetry and drama and needlework, had her governesses not taught the most important lesson anyone could learn - that life was really not going to be easy after one was free of the schoolroom?

His years of dependency were past. It was time to grow up and take charge. It was not going to be easy. But he had long ago realized that he must treat his blindness as a challenge rather than as a handicap if he wished to enjoy anything like a happy, fulfilled life.

when one had taken that first determined step out into the rest of one's life, one had to keep on striding forward—or retreat and be forever defeated.

Life is always like that, he said gently. We are what we are because of what has happened to us in the past. We cannot change that and we should not wish to. I love you as you are, Elizabeth. Perhaps I would not love you as well if you had not met and loved and lost Hetherington. Perhaps the experience has given you the air of maturity and serenity that I so admire in you. Give me your future, my dear. I do not ask for the past.

She felt annoyed that he of all people was to be the witness to her failure.

Tomorrow she would think about her new problems, for, truth to tell, she had merely exchanged one nasty difficulty for another.

But life and pain go hand and hand. On e cannot live fully unless one faces pain at least occasionally.

She felt very close to despair. It seemed that everything was going wrong around her.

Camille, what happened to you must surely have been the very best thing that could possibly have happened. ... I wonder if the advent of Anna into your life was in its way as much of a blessing as her advent into mine has been. Two very different men, saying essentially the same thing—that the greatest catastrophe of her life was perhaps also its greatest blessing.

Life has kicked us in the teeth, Abby, and I am about to kick back. Hard.