Quotes About Adversity

La gran mayoría de los oficinistas despedidos se tragaron el sapo, como se suele decir, y aceptaron que les dieran pensamiento positivo en vez de la nómina mensual y la seguridad de antes. No tomaron las calles, no forzaron ningún cambio en la política, no se presentaron en su ex oficina con una pistola.

Le voy a decir algo que no le va a gustar: una crisis no es una oportunidad".

She understood that even the worst days contained only twenty-four hours. One did what one had to do to get through them, and afterwards, one slept.

Sugar, it's no parade but you'll get down the street one way or another, so you'd just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.

Every one of us is called upon, perhaps many times, to start a new life. A frightening diagnosis, a marriage, a move, loss of a job...And onward full-tilt we go, pitched and wrecked and absurdly resolute, driven in spite of everything to make good on a new shore. To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another--that is surely the basic instinct...Crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is.

If you never stepped on anybody's toes, you never been for a walk.

There can be no greater spiritual accomplishment than to come through brutal trials and then look back and see that mean times did not render us mean spirits.

We are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.

Mistakes wreck your life. But they make what you have. It's kind of all one. You know what Hester told me when we were working the sheep one time? She said it's no good to complain about your flock, because it's the put-together of all your past choices.

At the time, I thought my life couldn't get any worse. Here's some advice: Don't ever think that.

You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.

Sometimes I've survived anger only one minute at a time, by saying to myself again and again that the best kind of revenge is some kind of life beyond this, some kind of goodness. And I can lay no claim to goodness until I can prove that mean people have not made me mean.

The thing is, Mom, the secret of happiness is low expectations. That's a good reminder, right there. If you didn't lose your husband and kids all in one year, smile! You're ahead of the game.

I walked through the valley of my fate, is all, and learned to love what I could lose.

Mistakes wreck your life. But they make what you have. It's kind of all one.

For six years, from age nineteen until I turned twenty-five, I did not sleep uninterrupted through a single night. . . . I felt lucky to get my shoes on the right feet. . . . I moved forward only, thinking each morning anew that we were leaving the worst behind.

Here, bodily damage is more or less considered to be a by-product of living, not a disgrace.

It's frightening, she thinks, how when the going gets rough you fall back on whatever awful think you grew up with.

Trust the road. Because nobody stays, in the long run you're on your own with your ghosts. You're the ship, they're the bottle.

He could construct defeat from any available material and live inside it, but for once Dellarobia didn't go there with him. She was going ahead.

Where you'd be wearing out the knees of your trousers, sir, they just have to go ahead and wear out their knees!

I thought I'd had a pretty hard life. But I keep finding out that life can be hard in ways I never knew about.

She is not a bulldog, only a woman pressed into the shape of a small jar, possibly attempting to dance in there. It shows in the way she places a seashell on a window sill, a red-painted chair in the corner: she is practiced in the art of creating a still life and taking up residence inside it.

She looked like Cinderella in reverse, stepped out from her life at the ball for a day of misery among the ashes.