Quotes About Adversity

He had reacted to pain and loss in a remarkably immature manner—as usual. Nothing much ever changed in his life, except the incidentals.

Nem sempre podemos esconder-nos da vida. (…) É melhor nem sequer tentar e encarar simplesmente o que precisa de ser encarado.

that he really had suffered

Did disasters sometimes happen to turn one away from a wrong course into the right one, the one that would bring the most happiness and the greatest fulfillment?

La vida podía ser muy deprimente en ocasiones, pero siempre continuaba. No tenía sentido dejarse llevar por la depresión.

She knew only that the evening before had been like some kind of nightmare in which everything that could have gone wrong had done so.

If we can only face our worst fears and move forward into them and through them instead of cowering or turning tail and running as far from them as we can, then we will never have to fear anything ever again.

It is what we do with the pain, though, how we allow it to shape our character and actions and relationships that matters.

Victims wallow. They fret over what they cannot control. And I'm no victim.

We are none of us born into Eden, Doc said reasonably. world's plenty evil when we get here. Question is, what's the best way to play a bad hand?...

At times, the solution to a maze is to reduce it to embers ans walk straight through the ashes. ? Mary Doria Russell, Children of God

Every one of them has a story, and every story begins with a man who failed her. A husband who came home from the war, good for nothin' but drink. A father who didn't come home at all, or a stepfather who did. A brother who should have protected her. A beau who promised marriage and left when he got what he wanted, because he wouldn't marry a slut. If a girl like that has lost her way, it's-because some worthless no-account-sonofabitch left her in the wilderness alone!

I ain't movin' to Arizona! Dammit, there is nothin' there but gravel and scorpions.

My experience is that many things are not as bad as I thought they would be.

You ever hear that old joke about the guy who jumped off the Empire State Building? D.W. asked her. Yeah. All the way down, you could hear him say, 'So far, so good. So far, so good. So far, so good.' That is George's life story in a nutshell.

She was alone and destitute in a world of pointless carnage. By an eight-hundred-year-old Sepahrdic tradition she ad been since the age of twelve and a half bogeret l'reshut nafsha--an adult wit authority over her own soul. The Torah taught, Choose life. And so, rather than die of pride, Sofia Mendes sold what she had to sell, and she survived.

Bein' born is craps. How we live is poker . Mamma played a bad hand well.

War smashes all our petty problems and sweeps the shards into one huge, patriotic pile.

Eat a toad first thing in the morning; the rest of the day will seem pleasurable by comparison

We are none of us born into Eden, Doc said reasonably. World's plenty evil when we get here. Question is, what's the best way to play a bad hand?

Eleanor Roosevelt: I gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which I must stop and look fear in the face—I say to myself, I've lived through this and can take the next thing that comes along. We must do the things we think we cannot do.

Valiantly, he tried to bring his soul to life in the small thing through which it had to live, and it was crushed, again and again.

When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.

live your life as if you may lose everything.