Quotes About Adversity

It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us. Of course, things can hurt us physically or economically and can cause sorrow. But our character, our basic identity, does not have to be hurt at all. In fact, our most difficult experiences become the crucibles that forge our character and develop the internal powers, the freedom to handle difficult circumstances in the future and to inspire others to do so as well.

It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us. Of course, things can hurt us physically or economically and can cause sorrow. But our character, our basic identity, does not have to be hurt at all.

the pressures of circumstance

Expand Perspective Sometimes we are knocked out of our left brain environment and thought patterns and into the right brain by an unplanned experience. The death of a loved one, a severe illness, a financial setback, or extreme adversity can cause us to stand back, look at our lives, and ask ourselves some hard questions: "What's really important? Why am I doing what I'm doing?

the real struggle is here, now… Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer.

Difficult circumstances often create paradigm shifts, whole new frames of reference by which people see the world and themselves and others in it, and what life is asking of them.

Lo que nos hiere o daña no es lo que nos sucede, sino nuestra respuesta a lo que nos sucede.

It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us. Of course

It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us.

Many people experience a similar fundamental shift in thinking when they face

Mus skaudina ne skaud?s ?vykiai, bet m?s? reakcija ? tuos ?vykius.

things can hurt us physically or economically and can cause sorrow. But our character, our basic identity, does not have to be hurt at all.

While we can't always control what happens to us, we can always choose how we react to life's challenges.

In fact, our most difficult experiences become the crucibles that forge our character and develop the internal powers, the freedom to handle difficult circumstances in the future and to inspire others to do so as well.

It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us. Of course, things can hurt us physically or economically

Not facing reality would have been to accept the idea that what's happening in our environment had to determine us.

It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts

It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us. Of

More often than not, a person's center is some combination of these and/or other centers. Most people are very much a function of a variety of influences that play upon their lives. Depending on external or internal conditions, one particular center may be activated until the underlying needs are satisfied. Then another center becomes the compelling force.

When inadequate men assumed huge burdens, the outcome could only serve Despite.

Freedom doesn't mean you get to choose what happens to you. But you do get to choose how you react to it.

If he meant to survive, he could not afford the luxury of grieving over lost hopes. He was a leper; all his hopes were false.

Love and beauty could not be preserved by panic or flight.

As long as you have some idea of what's happening to you, 'real' or 'unreal' doesn't matter. You have to stand up for what you care about; if you don't, you lose control of who you are.