Quotes About Adversity

A great principle of moral advancement, on par with Love thy neighbor and All men are created equal, is the one on the bumper sticker: Shit happens.

Not only does the universe not care about our desires, but in the natural course of events it will appear to thwart them, because there are so many more ways for things to go wrong than for them to go right.

If the tailor goes to war against the baker, he must henceforth bake his own bread

The first piece of wisdom they offer is that misfortune may be no one's fault.

Outwitting and second-guessing an organism of approximately equal mental abilities with non-overlapping interests, at best, and malevolent intentions, at worst, makes formidable and ever-escalating demands on cognition. And a cognitive arms race clearly could propel a linguistic one.

This is the kind of writer who gets the ball rolling in his search for the holy grail, but finds that it's neither magic bullet nor a slam dunk, so he rolls with the punches and lets the chips fall where they may while seeing the glass as half-full, which is easier said than done.

A great principle of moral advancement, on a par with "Love thy neighbor" and "All men are created equal," is the one on the bumper sticker: "Shit happens.

Poverty, too, needs no explanation. In a world governed by entropy and evolution, it is the default state of humankind.

Dear kindly Sergeant Krupke, You gotta understand, It's just our bringin' up-ke, That gets us out of hand. Our mothers all are junkies, Our fathers all are drunks. Golly Moses, natcherly we're punks!

I was in the game for love. After all, where else can an old-timer with one leg, who can't hear or see, live like a king while doing the only thing I wanted to do?

She will love deeply--suffer terribly--she will have glorious moments to compensate.

Forgive but don't forget, girl keep your head up. And when he tells you you ain't nothing, don't believe him. And if he can't learn to love you, you should leave him.

I love challenges and hurdles because they are opportunities.

It's a lot of people that's tried to stop my grind, there's been a lot of hate, but even more love.

Hate brings me to my knees, love gets me on my feet.

There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.

People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.

The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire.

Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make it so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, or drop a jar of applesauce.

Sufferings, adversities, humiliations, failures and suspicions that have come my way are splinters that keep alive the fire of my love for You, O Jesus.

I actually love swimming but I just hate jumping in the water.

Lessons often come dressed up as detours and roadblocks

I take compliments and I take constructive criticism. Not everyone loves you. It's the way you react as a footballer. I use it all to make me play better.

Resiliency is the key to love.